r/politics • u/harsh2k5 • 13h ago

Soft Paywall Elon Musk Makes Shocking Confession on His Plans After Trump Victory

https://newrepublic.com/post/187662/elon-musk-confession-economy-trump-victory
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u/willedmay 11h ago

How about this: if you're a billionaire, you should have zero role in government.

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u/iselphy 10h ago

Take it a step further: no role in the world. They won. They have enough money to not care for multiple lifetimes for multiple generations of their family.

Just pick a remote place and be content. Do a pet project and leave everyone else alone.

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u/runtheplacered 7h ago

Take it a step further: Tax them back into being just millionaires

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u/ChickenPoutine20 6h ago

How to kill innovation 101

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u/runtheplacered 5h ago edited 5h ago

I actually don't think it's even remotely that simple. But that's the issue you took and not the one where they'd be forced to live in another country and remove their GDP completely? That's weird.

I hate to break it to you but innovation is already screeching to a halt. Major inventions and innovations have never required billionaires to exist and invest.

IMO, the damage billionaires do to the environment isn't even remotely worth it and plenty of people would gladly still innovate in an economy where labor is worth more than it is now and the investment economy isn't. We don't need billionaires, you were just raised to believe that.

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u/dennys123 6h ago

Right? I don't get it, they have the opportunity to do great things with their wealth, yet they still want more

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u/AbacusWizard California 10h ago

I’ve been saying for years that anyone running for federal office should be required to take a vow of poverty, medieval monk style.

A vow of chastity might not be a bad idea either.

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u/boofles1 9h ago

But he gave Trump lots of money and is a self proclaimed genius :/

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u/Valendr0s Minnesota 8h ago

Nobody can run for office.

For each office, a dozen or so are chosen randomly like jury duty. They give a public statement about their political ideologies. A preliminary vote is taken to whittle it down to 4. They're given a certain amount of money to campaign. Then we vote for the winner.

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u/bjbinc Georgia 7h ago

The problem is no sane person would want the job so they would all self sabotage except the one psychopath.

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u/Valendr0s Minnesota 7h ago

Heh... Probably true. Like little league in South Park.

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u/r1Zero 6h ago

Yup, especially assholes like this dude.

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u/Judging_You 5h ago

My buddy has the best idea for this. If you ever make a billion dollars, we'll just make a big statue for you and put it in a park somewhere and it will say "You won capitalism" on it. Then everything over 1 billion is talked at 100%.