“No one should be that rich” the twenty-something year old proudly types into the twitter comment section about Elon Musk. He types it on his $900 iPhone while he drinks a $6 coffee—he is a college student so he needs the caffeine to give him energy (to party and watch Netflix). The little shit seems to miss the fact that comparatively, he IS the rich. I mean sure, he doesn’t have a yacht, but he can afford an apartment, food, a $10 Netflix subscription, and a daily coffee with some “milk” taken from god knows what. I bet there are billions of people who could look at him and say “no one should be that rich”!
This college educated shithead also believes that Elon Musk just has $200 billion. Like cash. Under his bed or something. He doesn’t understand that this money is value that Musk has created and is using to create more value. The world has decided to hand over money to the guy who advanced the electric car making it mainstream, cofounded PayPal, and oh, sent fucking rockets into space. But you’re probably right. We should take his money away and, you—the genius on Twitter who had done so much good in your life—should decide what we should do with it! But also, homeless people on skid row should be allowed to take your money and decide what to do with it (buy crack, lots of crack).
Another issue is if we decide people shouldn’t become wealthy, why the fuck would anyone want to work as hard as Musk does. What psychopath would work 100 hours a week if there is a cap to how much you can be incentivized?
I’m not saying all extremely rich people provide value. There are plenty of rich leeches who just play with numbers and the stock market all day and do nothing good for humanity. They just sit on piles of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck and take the occasional trip to Epstein island. But what’s interesting is these kind of guys don’t seem to get nearly as much heat as people actually doing productive things. People like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and that weirdo Bill Gates.
The jealousy will make it so you can never see straight though. So Tweet away and enjoy your coffee I guess.
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