@broadwaybabyto

How much are you planning to donate to these people in need?

@AlexanderKingsbury @broadwaybabyto

Would you please explain what your comment had to do with the evil of the United States governments allowing a single wretched, racist human being to amass a wealth of one trillion United States dollars while also having allowed the same man to indiscriminately and illegally take a metaphorical chainsaw to multiple United States government bodies' budgets and staffs as well as steal gigabytes of data regarding United States citizens with no oversight or accountability?

There are not enough regular people in the country to "donate" our way out of the generational damage done by this one man. It's like asking me to take cold showers and turn off my AC so genAI datacenters can have more power. There are orders of magnitude of difference in accountability.

After the United States government cut $1,000,000,000 earmarked for PBS and NPR, they saw a flood of donations, including a single $80,000,000 donation, for a total of $113,000,000. I give PBS $5 a month. Now a single human being has been allowed to hoard $1,000,000,000,000. The scale is incomparable. He's killed 600,000 people that we know of so far. He should be in prison awaiting trial as a mass murderer not profiting off an artificially pumped IPO designed to steal from my retirement and the retirement of every other United States citizen who works an honest job.

@jrdepriest @broadwaybabyto

"There are not enough regular people in the country to "donate" our way out of the generational damage done by this one man."

Then there aren't enough of us to bear the tax burden of these programs. These programs pretty much have to be funded by taxes. And no, "tax the rich" is not an answer. Confiscate every single penny of wealth from every billionaire in the US and you would 1; totally crash the economy. 2; fund the federal government for a whopping...9 months.

@AlexanderKingsbury @jrdepriest @broadwaybabyto

You are incorrect.

Musk could personally solve global poverty. He would still, personally have multiple billions of dollars and that wouldn't crash any economy.

@pewnack @jrdepriest @broadwaybabyto

Complete nonsense. If nothing else, it's not as if he (or anyone) can simply convert their net wealth to cash and hand it out. Much of such wealth is in the form of financial instruments, and liquidating them en masse would tank their value., which would have serious economic impacts.

@AlexanderKingsbury

Firstly, he accretes enough interest on his investments to fund anti-poverty programs without liquidating anything. He could actually invest significant capital in humanitarian causes.

Wealthy people used to do it a lot, Carnegie, Rockerfeller. Without crashing the value of their assets.
Back when the wealthy had even a semblance of shame.

You're defending a neo-Nazi trillionaire. You clearly don't have any semblance of shame.

@jrdepriest @broadwaybabyto