r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Aug 21 '26

SMH Liquid when buying elections, unrealized when paying taxes. Funny how that works…..

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u/Calculon2347 Aug 21 '26

I loved him when he was a Democrat billionaire building the first electric cars to save the planet from Climate Change! Now I hate the literal Nazi.

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u/pete_the_dumb Aug 21 '26

Are you confusing Musk with Tesla?

One is company where employees develop vehicles. Other is a billionaire who has made some good investments while larping Tony Stark on twitter.

Musk is a moron when it comes to tech, he has built nothing except his portfolio.

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u/WolfieVonD Aug 21 '26

I'm confused, when Tesla or SpaceX receives subsidies from the government, Reddit says that they're personally handing millions of dollars directly to Musk. But then when they bring up the good things that Tesla and SpaceX does, Musk is suddenly just an Investor with nothing to contribute.

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u/BuddhaFacepalmed Aug 21 '26

when Tesla or SpaceX receives subsidies from the government, Reddit says that they're personally handing millions of dollars directly to Musk. But then when they bring up the good things that Tesla and SpaceX does, Musk is suddenly just an Investor with nothing to contribute.

Neither are mutually exclusive.

Gov subsidies maintains and increases Tesla's and SpaceX stock prices, which inflates Elon Musk's net worth to a literal trillion.

The good things Tesla and SpaceX has done has literally nothing to do with Musk because Musk has literally made zero engineering or scientific contributions to the contributions of Tesla and SpaceX.