The average salary in the USA is (rounding up) about 60k annually. Musk's wealth has been growing exponentially, but he's made (rounding down) at least $35B annually for the past 5 years. Twenty bucks is about 0.03% of 60k. 0.03% of $35B is 10,500,000. Elon's "twenty bucks" is over $10 million. - ThreadSky

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swolesome.bsky.social • 91 days ago

The average salary in the USA is (rounding up) about 60k annually. Musk's wealth has been growing exponentially, but he's made (rounding down) at least $35B annually for the past 5 years. Twenty bucks is about 0.03% of 60k. 0.03% of $35B is 10,500,000.

Elon's "twenty bucks" is over $10 million.

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swolesome.bsky.social•91 days ago

Like I know people do a lot of "wealth to scale" stuff that's largely dismissed by people who don't already understand the problem, but good fucking lord. Imagine what you could do with 10 million dollars and realize that to Elon Musk, that amount registers more like paying for parking.

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cusoman.bsky.social•91 days ago

This is why I don't get all this scheming. The system *as it exists right now* makes him richer than any one person should ever be. If he REALLY wanted to shake things up, he'd start throwing money at real problems

inkpenavenger.bsky.social•91 days ago

But he DOESN'T want to shake things up. He just wants all the money and for only white people to exist.

swolesome.bsky.social•91 days ago

Agreed. I think that was cusoman's point--that anyone justifying it as him "shaking things up" is blatantly lying to themselves. He doesn't *need* more money and power to shake things up, he could already do that, and this makes his racist and greed-motivated goals even more obvious.

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