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Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2024: $454.1 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2024: $242.3 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2024: $210.1 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2024: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. We’re in the thick of it.

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So…$7.25 x 2080 full-time work hours = $15,080 annually…before taxes. Elon’s $45,400,000,000 is equivalent to the annual wages of 3,010,610 full-time working employees. Didn’t Leon say that he was going to “fix” homelessness or hunger in the U.S. (or the world)? What happened to that? 🙄

He will likely make homelessness illegal. Then they will be placed in Trump concentration camps. Any who are foreign will get deported. Musk is no longer longer interested in using his money to help the less fortunate.

imagine if Musk gave $1B to every Earthling. 9 Billion on the planet. He'd still have an obscene amount of wealth BUT people would be healthy, have homes, education, cities would thrive. It's utterly disgusting

Level of personal security goes from “people are always looking out for me and I get my healthcare concierge-style” to “24/7/365 head of state-level detail”

Trickle down economic is doesn’t work. This group could do so much good for the world and still have wealth beyond their needs (and generations after them) but instead they make other choices. I wish they could see themselves in a different way and stop listening to the devil on their shoulders.

Good Information... but ONLY CONGRESS can pass the laws that prevent billionaires from sheltering their money from taxes. Congress is comprised of both Dem/GOP multimillionaires who refuse to do anything...

1% grift over 60% of surplus value produced by Labor. (Unpaid wages / profit) Leaves 40% of surplus value of Labor / profit , paid to workers in wages and benefits for 99% of population. This gap is only going to continue to grow under current capitalist system.

Musk will need ever increasing violence committed by the governments he sponsors against the groups he scapegoats. Fascism has only one playbook. Musk will eventually engage in activities which resemble Final Solutions. His embrace of the neo-Nazi party in Germany is prelude to the ovens.

I don’t begrudge wealthy people who make their money honestly & or because they’re smart about finance. I do however, think that wealth building on the backs of the middle class & poor folks is sadistic. If Amazon’s trucks cause undue wear on roads, Amazon should pay to maintain shared resources!

Imagine how different things could be, if instead of their greed being insatiable, they thought “what can I do with $11bn that I can’t do with $10bn?” Musk could have contributed $444.1bn to those in need instead of being a hungry, hungry hippo.

Well, a slight majority is just fine with it. Apparently, they are all millionaires in waiting. Give them what they want, abolish, federal, minimum income, abolish medicaid and medicare, labor laws and environmental protection. Sometimes people need to learn the hard way. #FAFO

Elon Musk went into government because he was going to go broke or put in prison for embezzling billions from government contracts and now using the government to stop all the investigations into Tesla's self-driving cars that killed hundreds of people already; "stopping all liability claims"!

Sad but true. If McDonald's is willing to pay $15/hr why is the federal minimum wage what it is? Both parties share the blame. How about making a change in the minimum wage a priority, or are we more interested in extending Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy.

From his interview with Time Magazine after being named Person of the Year, 2021: "On being the richest person in the world: 'Well, I think there’s like some, you know, sovereigns. I think [Russia’s] President Putin is significantly richer than me. I can’t invade countries and stuff.'"

Correct. We are in the advanced stages whereby this alleged liberal democracy is an illusion with us on the threshold of a fascistic state. Ruthless powerful individuals and their disciples of depravity, including the supporting roles of the merchants of malarkey makes for an ugly picture.