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The US federal government spends $20B per day. It could end world hunger without even noticing the expense if it really only cost $40B/year. But of course, that number is complete nonsense.

Here is your intellectual mistake: Wealth isn't fixed. Musk didn't take his fortune from anyone else. He has been part of creating a huge amount of new wealth in his companies.

Tesla didn't use to exist. Now it's worth $1500B. That's new wealth, and Musk owns a part of it.





I knew I’d draw a Musk cult member out of the weeds. The cult’s defense of their dear leader is an irresistible biological impulse.

It’s ironic that you’re accusing the government of not doing enough because the US government used to spend a lot of money helping people by fighting diseases and other poverty issues around the world (USAID) before Elon Musk himself illegally joined the federal government and cut that program.

So really Elon Musk has had a direct negative effect on world hunger and poverty including US government policy on the matter.

Maybe you think $40 billion to solve world hunger a year is unrealistic and maybe the US government isn’t doing enough, but Elon Musk is literally having a negative impact on the exact issue. At least the US government is/was doing a non-zero amount.

Finally, you claim Tesla has created new wealth. I would submit that Tesla has stolen wealth from the people in terms of its main business of transportation. Remember when Elon Musk fought against multiple public transit projects? Remember the lie that was hyperloop and the boring company which diverted public attention away from more viable and realistic public transit projects?

Every car company CEO is out to derail public transit projects that aim to reduce car dependency and make our world more equitable to traverse, and Elon Musk is an especially bad actor in that regard. He is an ideological proponent of a wealth-divided transportation system, where have-nots sit in traffic paying off car debt and haves skip traffic through his private tunnels.

Every vehicle we are forced to buy from mega corporations is a wealth siphon. It’s the biggest thing that the average person buys that depreciates into nothing rather than appreciating or holding value like a home.




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