Tesla chair says Elon Musk needs $46 billion pay plan to stay motivated

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Tesla chair says Elon Musk needs $46 billion pay plan to stay motivated
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The only problem is that with your merger $200,000 job you'd have to work for 5,000 years at that wage without spending a single penny before you'd reach even one billion dollars. To be e billionaire now would make your start date 3000 BC which would be around the time the Sumeruan writing system was first used.

  • Now, it gets worse. If you want to make Elons 46 billion dollar package you'd have to start working your full time $200,000 job 230,000 years ago. This would be the prehistoric stone age so finding a $200,000 a year job would be difficult. Even more difficult would be staying alive while working full time for 230,000 years while you earn the amount Elon wants handed to him.

  • I think the reason people think having a billion dollars is OK is because they can't do math and don't understand the ludicrously in that amount of money.

If I were Grand Poobah, I'd throw the rich a bone and say any wealth over $10 million is taxed at 99%.

No one needs $10 million, but let them have their precious Lamborghinis.

You can't tax wealth.

One of the first paragraphs states that by 2017 only 5 countries have wealth tax. Because it's fucking dumb and doesn't work.

Your words:

You can’t tax wealth.

You absolutely can. Whether you think it's "fucking dumb and doesn't work" doesn't change the fact that you can tax wealth and you were wrong.

I don't expect you to admit it though. Admitting you're wrong on the internet is the worst thing you can do apart from apologize to someone you wronged.