Venture capitalist Bradley Tusk told LBC: “If Elon Musk says he needs a trillion dollars because he’s going to solve global hunger or something like that, great, have at it. But I don’t know what you could possibly buy with a trillion dollars that you couldn’t buy with a hundred billion, or probably even $10 billion.”
Well at least he’s aware of how much money a trillion dollars is and how easy it would be to solve world hunger.
He once said that if there was a concrete plan to solve world hunger he would do it. Then a representative of an actual plan to solve world hunger showed up on his Twitter feed and provided him with information and he was like ‘nah’.
And the plan would only cost a small amount of his fortune. He bought Twitter for much, much more.
I think it was only like 6 billion, right?
A huge number on its own, but in this context it’s nothing.
He paid 44 billion for Twitter and it took him a few days to raise that much money. He could have been the man to write the cheque to end world hunger and be honored by millions for generations to come (despite all his other bullshit), but he chose not to.
The world starves not because we cannot feed the hungry, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
Yup. The actual sources of world hunger aren’t material but systemic. So it’s not as easy as just “giving everyone food”, but the more complicated “give everyone access to a robust agriculture supply chain”.
Fortunately, giving 1-2% of people fertilizer and some work animals might be a bit more complicated, it’s significantly cheaper.
Millionaire CEO? Who is this broke bitch?
Lmao I’m thinking the same! Like damn he’s struggling with us normal folks in the trenches!
I mean the millionaire class is a grey area between those who are so rich they are completely out of touch with working class realities, and those who were working class who got a break and played a good hand right.
Personally I don’t really have a problem with millionaires, that’s an amount you can make playing by the rules and not bending them to your own will.
Plus it just means “homeowner” in way too many cities.
It’s also just not a huge wealth disparity. Like having 5-10x more than the average is more tolerable than having 10,000x more than the average. if someone drove a car that was worth 10x more than mine, it would be a new Honda. If they had a house 5x larger it would be a large family home. This actually adjusts to the needs of society.
depends on how they got the money, did the guy come from wealth? if so he might be so detached from everyone else, even as a millionaire. or did he build up his wealth from the ground up, without the help of NEPTOTISM.
And there lies the real problem, the handing down of large sums of money. Entrenched wealth and power of an aristocracy. It destroys the meritocracy and the desire to progress society. My grandpa taught me a valuable lesson by giving all his money away. He paid for school, camp, life skills and that was it. True believer in the American dream having secured it for himself. I often wonder what he would think about the current state of the economy. As well as how I would interpret the state of the economy, if I wasn’t living in utter fucking poverty. I would not have the same attachment to social issues if I wasn’t front lines on the war against the poor.
“I will have you know I am a self made man! Just like my father and his father before him!”
If your parents left you a home, you’re probably a millionaire too. Many blue collar working folk are millionaires, except if they tried to spend those millions they’d become homeless.
I know right he only has an estimated 1/10th of a billion.
Not even close to that third comma, amateur.
VC usually has 100s of millions or billions. hes probably the one that uses funds from billionaires into his company?
He isn’t wrong. All it takes is the right amount of people to be pissed and revolution explodes. If the oligarchs think they have it rough now, wait until they are being lynched in the street by people who haven’t eaten a decent meal in recent memory. Look up 1918 Russia if you don’t believe me.
I somehow feel things have changed. Maybe it’s the internet, lack of education, consumerism, whatever. I hate to say this, bit I feel like a lot of people, when they get hungry, would steal from their neighbours. Far too many folk don’t understand that the wealthy are the author of their suffering and won’t know where to target their anger. Not to mention that oligarchs are hard to catch, whereas your neighbour with a slightly newer car is right there, and may be of a different race. People don’t understand who they should be angry with.
If there is still food to be stolen from your neighbours then things haven’t reached the point of revolt.
If there is still enough energy to be expended on hating your neighbor, then you haven’t reached the true point of revolt
When things are truly at their worst, your neighbor has no food to take. Your neighbor has no goods worth stealing. Harming them brings you no food, no money and less energy.
When things have reached that point, that is when the only option left is revolt and it does not matter what consumerism what gifts are given what lies are said. The only thing left to do is revolt or die. And no group of people will simply choose to die.
Lets hope he is right.
No shit. This is my retirement plan.
People are too divided for an Actual revolution, but I’d say let’s try
Internet echo chambers are literally “Divide and Conquer” at scale.
Wake me up when the masses give up their algorithmic app addictions.
This^. Most of us are part of the Machine. Any revolution must begin outside of it.
One of the most revolutionary actions people can take is put down their phones.
If the government bans social media, we will riot
Please collapse in an orderly fashion, form a queue or something. But don’t come up here, we’re full.
I’ve been waiting for the pitchforks since 2008.
Fingers crossed that if it does, people will see it as what happens when you let the clowns control the circus and the Terrorist Party never sees themselves in a position of authority ever again.
One can hope.
Well off working man warns the capitalist class the consequences of stiffing the working class.
Observer of history states historical observances.
Damn, I wonder if anyone else has noticed this. 😳
Eat the rich and use their money so there is no poverty in the world anymore.
and do something to prevent new people from taking their place so the problem doesnt just start again with different people
Maybe we just need the ever present threat of being eaten should one become too rich to achieve world peace.
Wow, thank you captain obvious
Author of the article could have picked a punchier subject line. Not that I disagree with the premise, but “millionaire” is pretty common these days. Like 20% of the population. Journalism is in the toilet these days.
Seriously. I’m pretty sure my mom is a millionaire if not very close, and she’s a teacher!
I’ve read that teachers are disproportionately likely to be millionaires!
