Posted on 04/22/2022 11:27:02 AM PDT by libh8er
I don't even own a place right now. I'm literally staying at friends' places,” he was quoted as saying by the New York Post.
“If I travel to the Bay Area, which is where most of Tesla's engineering is, I basically rotate through friends' spare bedrooms,” the Tesla CEO added.
“I don't have a yacht, I don't take vacations,” he added. Musk was responding to a question about wealth disparity across the world and the amount of money spent by billionaires.
“I think there's axiomatic flaws that are leading to that conclusion. It would be very problematic if I would be consuming billions of dollars a year in personal consumption, but that is not the case,” said Musk.
"It's not as though my personal consumption is high, with the one exception being the plane. If I don't use the plane then I have less hours to work," he added.
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He really is an extraordinary guy. Brilliant (Physicist), and down to earth. No giant ego.
I love the dude!
Have we really thought about that statement? What kinds of friends does Elon Musk have and what kind of spare bedrooms do they have?
I wouldn’t be complaining too much if I had those kind of friends who would put me up on a rotating basis.
I didn’t hear it anywhere, I tend to think for myself and don’t require others to do it for me.
True..and I am not saying billionaires do not have advantages that regular folks don’t have.
but that still doesn’t guarantee that doctors,even the best, do not make mistakes. They are limited by what they study or when they studied it.
Biden family had a different recipe.
1. Get elected babbling about helping the Little Guy
2. Vote for foreign aid programs that benefit criminal trash in foreign country
3. Collect cash from said foreign trash
4. Repeat as often as possible
Because people like to gossip. Why is everyone interviewing him, why are we posting and commenting?
Yes—it’s more like hyperfocus than attention deficit. And now all ADD is called ADHD which is stupid because many of not most of those with ADD don’t have the hyperactive part. (Perhaps only 4 year old boys do but then they all do. . .)
Well this certainly changes my perspective on the homeless...
People who travel in those circles probably have homes the size of small towns, and a crew to maintain them. They probably do it for the bragging rights. “Yeah, I’ve got Elon staying with me. He was telling me what a disgusting person Amber Heard is.”
I trust Elon Musk more than most politicians.....he’s for making a profit and takes no gruff from politicians!!!
I think there are thousands of people that would welcome him to spend the night!!!!
OMG, that was great!
His security team would need to go with him too.
“The wealth gap today is higher than any point in history, and if something isn’t done about leveling things out a bit, you can expect a Bernie Sanders type candidate to be elected in the not too distant future.”
Really? It’s a non-problem to me but what would you do about this awful problem as you see it? Don’t hold back. Let out your inner envy.
Goodone!!!!!
Sold off his properties so there’s nothing for gold diggers to dig.
Yeah, it’s called being on the autistic spectrum. I’ve been called worse. If it wasn’t for us y’all would still living in caves.
No envy here, I applaud those who are successful and believe they should be rewarded for their efforts, but still consider the great imbalance of wealth to be a problem on many levels. And like I’ve said, if something isn’t done about it, then don’t be surprised if we get a Bernie Sanders styled socialist in there.
I know many young people, including those of a conservative bent, who aren’t happy at all with the current state of affairs, their own difficulties trying to afford a house while raising a family and barely getting by, and I could imagine many in the younger generation equally frustrated. I could easily see some socialist demagogue exploiting this unless something is done. I think those worshipping capitalism as some sort of perfect economic construct fair to all are idiots. Inequities exist within the system and need to be dealt with or the social fabric of our society will eventually be ripped apart. That’s just the reality, like it or not.
Trust me, normies are just as strange and off to us as we seem to you. Example, I don’t get the deceit that normal people constantly engage in. I guess it’s considered “social lube” but to me... still lies.
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