Ok it’s clear to me now…the wealthiest man on the planet intends to get richer by using honeypot tweets like this to whip otherwise sane people into to a constant state of fear that extremists are taking over the country.
This not free speech. It’s a 2-minute-hate stretched into a 24/7 primal scream, orchestrated by a soulless billionaire for his own financial gain and amusement.
Ok, rant over. Glad I made the jump to Mastodon : )
@Sir_Ivissia I will cop to being slow on the uptake at times. But I’m of the opinion that billionaires aren’t all greedy & soulless. Plenty of very rich people give some/most/nearly all of their fortune to charitable causes. Nobody is evil only because of their wealth. And I’m all for rich people getting richer, provided they are bringing everyone else along for the ride. Elon is, well, not doing that.
@Sir_Ivissia I hear you. How would you respond to this thought experiment…a billionaire starts a company that gives all 500 employees 0.1% ownership & profit-sharing (in addition to a livable wage) while he keeps the other 50%.
Is the billionaire evil/greedy? Has he really done nothing to make the world a little better place?
@Sir_Ivissia and if nothing else, would you not concede this is proof that not all rich people are rotten to the core?
@Sir_Ivissia Thx for sharing...
I'm in agreement that in this thought experiment the billionaire shouldn't be called a hero. A livable wage should be the bare minimum expectation if you have employees.
But consider that the billionaire could have just as easily bought an island and lived his life as a hermit, giving nothing to nobody. Would he be more or less virtuous if he had never invested/formed the company in the first place?
To me it seems that there's at least some economic good here that's benefitting more than just the billionaire.
You'll learn. Or you won't. Least you've started looking and that gets respect from me.