It’s ‘cause he supports Trump. If he were to ever break with King Donald, the left would embrace him just like they have MTG, Liz Cheney, and what’s-his-name from the Lincoln Project.
They are fueled by pettiness, envy, and hatred.
Just like President Milei says -- I used to think that Leftism was a disease of the mind, but now I know better. It is a disease of the soul.
You are, as usual, right. And you ask one of the most pertinent questions: “why aren’t we encouraging more Americans to follow his example?”
The answer, of course, is that jealousy coveting and whining about trillionaires is good politics for Democrat politicians. Your meme with Elon building things and being worth a trillion dollars next to Bernie giving speeches leaves out that Bernie, who never held a job, got kicked out of a commune because he was lazy, and never built a thing is a multi-millionaire who cant complain about the rich (because he is one) but can complain about the very rich.
The left infatuation with other people’s wealth is petty jealousy. They build nothing (think of all the democrats in Congress who never held a real job and when they do work it’s for useless, bullsh*t NGOs where they pay themselves huge salaries with other people’s.
Remember, Mark and Engles never held jobs either when they scribbled together a jealous rant and called it Marxism. What most people don’t understand is that Marxism, despite all the nonsense they teach about it, is not an economic system. It is a redistribution system, which presupposes the existence of wealth created by others, from those that produce to those that do nothing.
Here’s the thing. If it was bezos or Zuckerberg or Oprah or any of the others they’d be a ok with it. Why? Because the others have been dependable donors to the democrats. They burned that bridge with musk when his son is now his daughter. He’s been burned by the ridiculous ideology and it’s personal for him. So he’s beyond their control and influence, that’s what is unacceptable. Is he a perfect father? No a perfect human? No. That’s not the point. The point is he’s not under their influence any longer. So he can’t be tolerated.
Are you a troll? It is hard to believe that anyone who understands how incentives work really has your point of view, or maybe you believe that incentives don’t matter. His ability to convince other private individuals in VC firms is what changed the cost of operations in space, enabled Starlink. Look at what he has achieved compared to his competitors in the venture space area. The government contracts with him because his record and economics are vastly superior, As he said about Space X, there was probably a 10% chance that he could concede but he convinced investors to back him, and made them wealthy as a result. Stop your jealousy and envy sand instead produce something that others are willing to purchase from you.
You are right, Musk did take money from the government, but are you leaving out any information there? What happened before he got those gigantic contracts?
Was he awarded contracts because he built companies no one else could build that provide goods and services to me and my fellow Americans?
Now many of the same people who benefit from those goods and services are upset by the news that boogeyman Elon Musk was richer (on paper) on June 12 than he was on June 11. Dine-and-dash leftism strikes again.
Leftists are governed by pettiness, willful ignorance, and envy. It is a shame. I was once one of them.
Musk has invested in, founded, chaired, run and sold many companies that over the last 25 years, have employed hundreds of thousands of people made many of them rich beyond their wildest dreams, and paid billions of dollars in taxes. That's awesome.
I never said he was the founder of Tesla, but you spurred me to do some research (thank you for that). He invested $6.5 million in the company and became its chairman in 2005, less than a year after it was founding. He has been its CEO since 2008, as it has become the world's largest automaker. Who better to win government contracts?
Time will tell about the other ventures of his that you mentioned, but I look at businesses like baseball -- a hitter who fails 7 out of 10 times is one of the best ever.
Also never said anything about X, but in buying it and changing its policies, he restored the freedoms of speech and the press to a lot of people. What an amazing man. Flawed? Of course, but still amazing. I don't understand this hatred of Musk. I guess it's just his support for Trump.
More importantly, if I may, it sounds like you're getting riled up over there, and really over nothing. If that's the case, please just walk away. Go hug someone you love or pet a dog or a cat or a lizard. Doesn't matter. Good luck!
The other great economic benefit of Elon is that he has created a lot of wealth for others. Both the public market and private market investors who believe in him and now a lot of SoaceX employees. Another example of the multiple benefits that flow from the economy success of an individual . It used to be widely recognized when economic literacy was taught I schools that it was not poor people and unsuccessful business who created jobs.
Obviously, much of this hatred is attributable to Elon Musk’s support for President Trump on at least some matters. I personally have somewhat mixed feelings about Musk but also believe that he’s been good for America when the pluses and minuses are weighed up.
What the critics on the Left also can't honestly say is that his wealth is the product of the mixed economy of money printing, central planning and government subsidies. You can't be critical of Musk and then not recognize the environment that enabled that artificial wealth.
In a truly free market, Musk would be rich (because of the value he created and may create in the future), but not as rich as he is.
Now that said, I agree that his Tesla wealth is partly because of government subsidies. That is the only one that can legit be criticized. But you can’t really say the same about his other businesses.
The last frontier culture in North America happened in Canada in 1905. Hordes of American farmers pioneered the large agricultural bread basket of the northern prairies. My grandfather came from Iowa and my mom grew up on a lttle house in the northern prairies. They were poor but free. I did not realize until my 50s how much this frontier culture impacted my view of the world. Especially the mistrust of institutions and how they shape and misshapen our humanity. Musk is a frontiersman who does not kowtow to institutions but drives humanity forward into the future. He is the panultimate threat to the Institutionalizers. The Institutionalization of humanity comes in many forms and is recognized by the excessiven use of force in order to direct humanity, through the imposition of managed order. Musk is a dire threat to their vision of an ordered, controlled, and directed humanity. Im not advocating an anarchist or libertarian position, since some institutions are needed. They are a bulwark against chaos and one need only look at where there is no governance to see the result. Yet we are blind to the over governance of society and how it turns many into intstutionalized prisoners who fear the unknown light of self rule and freedom. The chains of institutionalized life becomes more comfortable than the freedom of living on the frontier where on must build a life, cooperate freely with others of like mind, and risk liberty. Musk, as a trillionaire, is a risk to all the hyper institutionalizers.
It's 2026 and we still have pseudo smart morons saying Musk invented companies that bring incredible things into the world instead of the reality: musks wealth is almost entirely derived from failing companies being propped up by insane amounts of government spending.
The hyper loop that's 40 years behind schedule? The Tesla cars that are 10 years behind the times? The starship that can literally never do anything it's promised to do?
It's time to face facts: Musk's wealth is the equivalent of the USSR making a state owned 'company' that made inferior crap and tried to force everyone to buy it.
It’s ‘cause he supports Trump. If he were to ever break with King Donald, the left would embrace him just like they have MTG, Liz Cheney, and what’s-his-name from the Lincoln Project.
They are fueled by pettiness, envy, and hatred.
Just like President Milei says -- I used to think that Leftism was a disease of the mind, but now I know better. It is a disease of the soul.
Jealousy and envy certainly are destructive of one’s soul ( and happiness). Even if cloaked as self righteousness and concern for “the greater good”.
If he’s infuriating socialists, he must be doing something right.
Well the rules were bent by NASDAQ for him .
Thanks John! Unfortunately this is true so most people won’t believe it. 😆
You are, as usual, right. And you ask one of the most pertinent questions: “why aren’t we encouraging more Americans to follow his example?”
The answer, of course, is that jealousy coveting and whining about trillionaires is good politics for Democrat politicians. Your meme with Elon building things and being worth a trillion dollars next to Bernie giving speeches leaves out that Bernie, who never held a job, got kicked out of a commune because he was lazy, and never built a thing is a multi-millionaire who cant complain about the rich (because he is one) but can complain about the very rich.
The left infatuation with other people’s wealth is petty jealousy. They build nothing (think of all the democrats in Congress who never held a real job and when they do work it’s for useless, bullsh*t NGOs where they pay themselves huge salaries with other people’s.
Remember, Mark and Engles never held jobs either when they scribbled together a jealous rant and called it Marxism. What most people don’t understand is that Marxism, despite all the nonsense they teach about it, is not an economic system. It is a redistribution system, which presupposes the existence of wealth created by others, from those that produce to those that do nothing.
I'd rather Elon have it than the 535 crooks in DC!
Here’s the thing. If it was bezos or Zuckerberg or Oprah or any of the others they’d be a ok with it. Why? Because the others have been dependable donors to the democrats. They burned that bridge with musk when his son is now his daughter. He’s been burned by the ridiculous ideology and it’s personal for him. So he’s beyond their control and influence, that’s what is unacceptable. Is he a perfect father? No a perfect human? No. That’s not the point. The point is he’s not under their influence any longer. So he can’t be tolerated.
They think they deserve it.
Even crazier, they think it’s theirs.
It literally is theirs because the vast vast majority of the money going into spaceX comes from gigantic government contracts.
You have a retarded baby view of capitalism, where you think people have 'earned' something if they take that money from the government.
Are you a troll? It is hard to believe that anyone who understands how incentives work really has your point of view, or maybe you believe that incentives don’t matter. His ability to convince other private individuals in VC firms is what changed the cost of operations in space, enabled Starlink. Look at what he has achieved compared to his competitors in the venture space area. The government contracts with him because his record and economics are vastly superior, As he said about Space X, there was probably a 10% chance that he could concede but he convinced investors to back him, and made them wealthy as a result. Stop your jealousy and envy sand instead produce something that others are willing to purchase from you.
You are right, Musk did take money from the government, but are you leaving out any information there? What happened before he got those gigantic contracts?
Was he awarded contracts because he built companies no one else could build that provide goods and services to me and my fellow Americans?
Now many of the same people who benefit from those goods and services are upset by the news that boogeyman Elon Musk was richer (on paper) on June 12 than he was on June 11. Dine-and-dash leftism strikes again.
Leftists are governed by pettiness, willful ignorance, and envy. It is a shame. I was once one of them.
He was not awarded contracts because he built successful companies. What were the successful companies he built?
You know he's not the founder of Tesla right?
Oh my God did you fall for the Tesla founder thing?
Holy shit are there really people who still think he's the Tesla founder?
Bro did you think he founded Twitter too?
Holy shit man. Holy shit. I didn't know people like you were real.
Musk has invested in, founded, chaired, run and sold many companies that over the last 25 years, have employed hundreds of thousands of people made many of them rich beyond their wildest dreams, and paid billions of dollars in taxes. That's awesome.
I never said he was the founder of Tesla, but you spurred me to do some research (thank you for that). He invested $6.5 million in the company and became its chairman in 2005, less than a year after it was founding. He has been its CEO since 2008, as it has become the world's largest automaker. Who better to win government contracts?
Time will tell about the other ventures of his that you mentioned, but I look at businesses like baseball -- a hitter who fails 7 out of 10 times is one of the best ever.
Also never said anything about X, but in buying it and changing its policies, he restored the freedoms of speech and the press to a lot of people. What an amazing man. Flawed? Of course, but still amazing. I don't understand this hatred of Musk. I guess it's just his support for Trump.
More importantly, if I may, it sounds like you're getting riled up over there, and really over nothing. If that's the case, please just walk away. Go hug someone you love or pet a dog or a cat or a lizard. Doesn't matter. Good luck!
The other great economic benefit of Elon is that he has created a lot of wealth for others. Both the public market and private market investors who believe in him and now a lot of SoaceX employees. Another example of the multiple benefits that flow from the economy success of an individual . It used to be widely recognized when economic literacy was taught I schools that it was not poor people and unsuccessful business who created jobs.
Obviously, much of this hatred is attributable to Elon Musk’s support for President Trump on at least some matters. I personally have somewhat mixed feelings about Musk but also believe that he’s been good for America when the pluses and minuses are weighed up.
As Gad Saad said, you can tell a lot about a person by how they reacted to Musk breaking the one trillion barrier.
Me, I thought it was hilarious, and I want to see it again!
And then I bought some SpaceX stock.
What the critics on the Left also can't honestly say is that his wealth is the product of the mixed economy of money printing, central planning and government subsidies. You can't be critical of Musk and then not recognize the environment that enabled that artificial wealth.
In a truly free market, Musk would be rich (because of the value he created and may create in the future), but not as rich as he is.
But your last comment is true of almost everyone.
Now that said, I agree that his Tesla wealth is partly because of government subsidies. That is the only one that can legit be criticized. But you can’t really say the same about his other businesses.
The last frontier culture in North America happened in Canada in 1905. Hordes of American farmers pioneered the large agricultural bread basket of the northern prairies. My grandfather came from Iowa and my mom grew up on a lttle house in the northern prairies. They were poor but free. I did not realize until my 50s how much this frontier culture impacted my view of the world. Especially the mistrust of institutions and how they shape and misshapen our humanity. Musk is a frontiersman who does not kowtow to institutions but drives humanity forward into the future. He is the panultimate threat to the Institutionalizers. The Institutionalization of humanity comes in many forms and is recognized by the excessiven use of force in order to direct humanity, through the imposition of managed order. Musk is a dire threat to their vision of an ordered, controlled, and directed humanity. Im not advocating an anarchist or libertarian position, since some institutions are needed. They are a bulwark against chaos and one need only look at where there is no governance to see the result. Yet we are blind to the over governance of society and how it turns many into intstutionalized prisoners who fear the unknown light of self rule and freedom. The chains of institutionalized life becomes more comfortable than the freedom of living on the frontier where on must build a life, cooperate freely with others of like mind, and risk liberty. Musk, as a trillionaire, is a risk to all the hyper institutionalizers.
It's 2026 and we still have pseudo smart morons saying Musk invented companies that bring incredible things into the world instead of the reality: musks wealth is almost entirely derived from failing companies being propped up by insane amounts of government spending.
The hyper loop that's 40 years behind schedule? The Tesla cars that are 10 years behind the times? The starship that can literally never do anything it's promised to do?
It's time to face facts: Musk's wealth is the equivalent of the USSR making a state owned 'company' that made inferior crap and tried to force everyone to buy it.