One thing Elon Musk definitively proves is that assholes shouldn't be billionaires.
It's a bit chicken eggish to argue if assholes are more likely to become billionaires or becoming billionaires ends up compromising one's humanity such as to turn one into an asshole, but you just can't get around the fact that probably most every billionaire is an asshole.
And being billionaires enables a lot of power.
That is bad.
Tax the fuck out of those fuckers. Those assholes.
That's a good question.
Being a billionaire naturally drives you to support policies that benefit billionaires, such as tax cuts, deregulation, union busting, punishing whistleblowers, leniency for white collar crimes, lower min pay, etc. Which implies cutting public services and aid to the poor. Which implies suppressing social activism and protests, by force and rigged justice. Which implies screwing democracy and pushing for dictatorship... 🧵>
🧵> On the other hand, as a US Congressman once observed, "no one can earn a billion dollars honestly". (It was 1 million, but in the 1930s; adjusting for inflation it would be 50 million today.)
So I would say that a billionaire is somewhat unlikely to have been a honest working and morally scrupulous person at the start...
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