Elon Musk pledges to fix any home in Flint, Michigan that has contaminated water - Sensationalist Headlines

Most of his wealth is from Tesla stock. If he gave that up, and gave the money away he would essentially be giving up the vast majority of control he has over what Tesla does.

You're going to have to elaborate on this one for me. I've read it over several times now and it just does not compute. What about heroes is intrinsically toxic exactly?

I have literally no idea what I meant by that. I posted at 3AM and was so tired it was practically PUI. I guess if I have to reverse-engineer what I was thinking there, I'd say that it's probably not great to put that much emotional investment and trust into someone you've never met and never will - especially since lately a lot of peoples' heroes have been getting outed as sex perverts and abusers lately.

It's no up to us to decide what people truly deserve and I see no issue with his wealth as he uses it to help people

To whom is it, then? The invisible hand of capitalism? It absolutely is up to us to ensure that what people get is truly deserved.

Sure, insofar as it's the responsibility of society to make sure beneficial behavior is rewarded and negative behavior is punished. The most successful business strategy shouldn't be the one that sacrifices long term stability for short term gain, and it's the job of society to make sure that's the case. But caps on individual power aren't about making sure people get what they deserve. Even in a theoretical society where only good behavior makes money, you still wouldn't want one individual to own everything.

Then I decree that Elon Revee Musk deserve all wealth accounted to him for his efforts proved invaluable to Tesla and SpaceX mission statement in the year 2008 to present.

No, its used because he thinks vicariously throwing money around in singular problem areas will somehow make lives better. It doesn't. There are towns and even major cities like Philadelphia with water just as bad but no one bats an eye because its not on Twitter. You wanna know where his money is better spent? Pushing for policy reform and new government revenue streams for smaller municipal governments so they can afford to fix things or pushing for better oversight. What's he doing instead? Just like everything fucking else, he's applying a band aid solution. He doesn't tackle the core issue because that's difficult, long and largrly won't be seen. Yes he's helping but its so much after the fact that i'm fucking shocked people are acting like things is out of his own heart. Flint's been known and protested over for 3 years, the fuck was he 3 years ago?

The point is not to arbitrarily decree what one deserves but to provide actual arguments to justify it. My argument is that nobody can provide enough additional effort compared to the people who slave away on minimum wage to deserve thousands or hundreds of time more revenue.

And don't you dare give me "better late then never" when he's been funding the support structure of the assholes who CAUSED this.

I want Mr. Musk to come into my home and fix my leaky sink if you know what I mean.

I don't think Elon does hemorrhoid surgery yet but who knows

You mean you want him to have conversations with politicians and push for change? But at the same time you go off your wrocker for him doing exactly that? Damned either way apparently. He's not going to able to do that if he shows a clear bias to one party, his donations are pretty equal.

Sure. He wants a legacy. A legacy where his great grandkids are the literal kings/queens of Mars.

That is not even close to what I am saying and I fail to where you even go that line of thinking outside of failing English Comprehension during school.

You wanna know where his money is better spent? Pushing for policy reform and new government revenue streams for smaller municipal governments so they can afford to fix things or pushing for better oversight. Sounds like lobbying to me. How else would he push for policy reform?

My (unfortunate) assumption is that billionaires either inherited their wealth (or the means and connections making it sufficiently easy) or in the course of becoming rich they did immoral shit, like treating workers badly. Not always case obviously. Also many billionaires do this philanthropy thing, like giving money to charity justify the abuses made to get to the top. Also many billionaires use their money to get a larger representation in politics, which diminishes the influence we, as lay people, have. And often the interests of the super rich (lower tax burden on themselves, keeping loopholes open, weakening organised labour) clash directly with the interests of the people they take the power away from. Obviously this ain't all billionaires. And some of those points outweigh others and maybe there is a threshold for philanthropy where the ends do justify the means.

Lobbying the party that caused the Flint Michigan problem in the first place is policy reform?

Rich fuck over poor, yes this has been a thing for thousands of years.

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How about you stop donating to the group that caused the water crisis in the first place then?