Elon Musk - Austin Bound!!!!

[Austin Ellen]

Why would anybody think that Elon cares about people? He doesn't. That's hysterical. I would never think that. He is the richest man in the world and able to do things that "normal" people can't do. He is the founder,CEO and Chief Engineer for Space X. Not many mere mortals can say that!!! And the bottom line is you can do more things with money than without it. Sometimes people are jealous of people who have large amounts of money. I never understood that. If you make lots of money - good for you!!!

[Green Eyed Shy Guy]

At least Elon isn't orange.

[KosherCowboy]

Why would anybody think that Elon cares about people?

When it comes to the accumulation of wealth and those who make ( made) him rich he gives a shit only about himself however caring about people is not the same thing. Apples to oranges. Not sure where you get that he doesn't care about people, fact or a random thought pulled from thin air? His charitable donations are well documented so his caring falls in the fact column. Much like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Mike Bloomberg the list goes on; Forbes as well. All known for donating massive money to ' people'; Elon included.

Yeah, admittedly some may have egos, might be arrogant perhaps selfish in ways but at the end of the day these folks gave money to charities and lots of it... Perhaps these contributions in odd ways benefit him too but much like Gates, Elon strives to better humanity and life on this planet obviously the guys does care but if you bought a Tesla or shares in his stock one shouldn't hold their breath for the thank you note; it ain't coming...

[Precious_b]

When it comes to the accumulation of wealth and those who make ( made) him rich he gives a shit only about himself however caring about people is not the same thing. Apples to oranges. Not sure where you get that he doesn't care about people, fact or a random thought pulled from thin air? His charitable donations are well documented so his caring falls in the fact column. Much like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Mike Bloomberg the list goes on; Forbes as well. All known for donating massive money to ' people'; Elon included.

Yeah, admittedly some may have egos, might be arrogant perhaps selfish in ways but at the end of the day these folks gave money to charities and lots of it... Perhaps these contributions in odd ways benefit him too but much like Gates, Elon strives to better humanity and life on this planet obviously the guys does care but if you bought a Tesla or shares in his stock one shouldn't hold their breath for the thank you note; it ain't coming...

Good to point out the charitable donation bit. Be it a tax write off or not.

There are those that make their money and those that take the money. Admire the former and two shits to the latter.

With the current "space race", some times it seems to me that the fat cats are doing anything to line their pockets and once they make this place an irreversible dump, they are going to leave the little people and go set up stakes on some off world place they've squirrelled away the $$$ to.

[MikeD77]

Charitable donations are often tax write offs. Don't conflate charitable donations with being a decent person. If you are sitting on a mountain of bread while everyone around you is starving that is close to the definition of being a terrible person. Philanthropy used to be a thing amongst the wealthy. Now it is wealth accumulation. Look at the website I linked for a visual of what that wealth looks like. I am in the top 1% of the world and so are many of you because clean drinking water is too often a luxury and so is a full belly. Wealth at Elon's level could be used to solve many of the world's problems. I still don't understand billionaire worship especially by those that muck about in the trenches