“He’s so stupid, hurr durr. He paid 40 billion and tanked the brand”.
Yeah and he MADE 100+ billion this election by downright lying through his teeth.
Don’t underestimate these people. They are intelligent (and often play a role to seem stupid, it’s a deliberate tactic) and malicious to the core.
I mean, he was already the world’s richest man, but evidently “the most of all” is not enough. They have 99% and we have 1%? They want to kill us for that last % because nothing will ever be enough for them.
Of course, they’ll let the killing do itself - why bother with that if a few well placed lies are enough to keep the population permanently divided along the axis of race, age, gender, sexuality… you name it, as long as it isn’t class.
Because this IS a class war and our side has been consistently losing for over three full decades.
When you enter the stratum of society that Musk is part of, you literally can’t fail. There’s a reason we keep talking about certain people continually “failing upwards”. Once you hit a billion, you’ve won capitalism and the only way to lose it is to go straight against the people in power (see China) or be an incredibly dumbfuck the likes of which is rarely seen (see Kanye). It’s literally impossible to lose at that point; you have so much money that simply having it generates more than what could be earned by working in any field, anywhere, globe-wide.
Billionaires should not exist at all, but that’s another discussion.
I can’t conceive of what I could do with “only” $12 billion from that sequence of events alone, and I’d be lucky to even hit $1 million (wages and retirement) total while alive over an entire lifetime of work.