Elon Musk's new Tesla pay package is around $100 billion a year.
That's as much as all 3.2 MILLION cashiers in America make.
It's $3 billion MORE than all the elementary teachers make.
It's $46 billion MORE than all the construction workers make.
Tax the damn rich.
Especially . . .
16 Comments
gustofwind@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 276d
I’ll just leave this here
ceenote@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 276d
To anyone who didn't follow the story, the World Food Programme developed a proposal to solve world hunger for half that cost. Surprising no one, Musk pretended this tweet never happened.
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 276d
Then Musk himself cut funding to USAID and purposefully caused millions of dollars worth of already purchased food to spoil rather than feed a single person.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 276d
In evaluating if someone is a shitty person, we should officially include in the calculations the scale on which they can be shitty. In other words, the fact that Musk is so rich actually does make him objectively one of the worst people alive right now.
SomeGirlsHaveAPenis@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 276d
Agree. Plus he's an actual white supremacist Nazi, and a relentless online troll who owns and sets up forums to increase the spread his hateful far-right views. Let's not forget about those variables in the calculation.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 276d
I'm just saying that with this revolutionary new method, we can still confirm that Elon Musk is indeed worse than a random hick who might be more openly bigoted.
SomeGirlsHaveAPenis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 276d
Good point. In that regard, I suggest adding a bigoted random hick quotient to the calculation.
(obviously this is a work-in-progress, and also obviously I have no math skills)
danc4498@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d
Yeah, but in doing so he has also made things more expensive and difficult for Americans. So the 2 negatives make a positive, right?
aramis87@fedia.io · 12 pts · 276d
If you saved $100 a day, from the day the earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago, you still wouldn't have as much money as Elon Musk. Eat the rich.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 276d
Not with that attitude, you wouldn't.
SomeGirlsHaveAPenis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 276d
I think anyone who has been alive for over 4 billion years would almost certainly have a terrible attitude. LOL.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 276d
Don't let them shift the goal posts in that direction.
Nobody deserves to be a billionaire, either.
SomeGirlsHaveAPenis@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 276d
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 276d
True.
Musk = POS Nazi.
taiyang@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 276d
Honestly at this point, I'd say we need a bit more than just taxing the rich.
SomeGirlsHaveAPenis@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d