• Synthead@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I honestly think that he doesn’t have to face consequences like normal people because he has enough money to make problems go away. He can be an awful person in interviews, and mean his words too, then even bankrupt his company, and you know what? He will continue being excessively rich.

    His money could be used to fix so many issues en masse. It’s disgusting that he chooses not to do so every day.

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      10 months ago

      He has wealth, he has to dip into selling stock to have “money.”

      I don’t disagree otherwise, but when your wealth is in the companies you own, you pretty much have to sell the whole shebang in one go (what Musk reportedly tried to do with Apple, offering to sell them Tesla as a whole) or selling it piecemeal, by selling off portions of stock (which he does fairly regularly for cash infusions).

      His wealth will surely insulate him for quite a long time. However, it is not a permanent insulator, and he has made a series of, let’s say, questionable decisions. It’s very likely that it will either take decades for it to really hurt him, or that it just may make him far less wealthy, but still wealthy enough to be annoying.

      We’re also at a precipice, because the kinds of things that he is saying were the kinds of things that used to get you shitcanned from the business community as a whole. Nobody would do business with a virulent anti-semite. It’s one of the reasons Musk bought Twitter, really, because they are busy normalizing positions like anti-semitism.

      The normalizing of his hate will actually get him farther, longer, than his wealth.

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        10 months ago

        If the guy has his money “tired up in assets,” and this is your way of saying that he shouldn’t pay taxes, then I have a bridge to sell you.

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      10 months ago

      His money could be used to fix so many issues en masse. It’s disgusting that he chooses not to do so every day.

      Pretty sure he posted on twitter a couple years ago about how if someone credible provided a plan to solve world hunger for 6 billion dollars, he would sell Tesla stock and just do it, to which the UN responded with a detailed plan. However, Musk pretty much ignored them, no acknowledgment (as far as I know) and no money donated.

      Using the money to fix issues in the world and making it a better place is not a part of his politics.