Let them eat space! Elon Musk and the race to end world hunger https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/02/elon-musk-race-hunger-world-food-programme-global-disaster
> Musk’s excuse for not handing over a tiny portion of his wealth to the WFP is > hardly original. Billionaires love to sorrowfully declare that they are dying > to pay more tax, but they can’t bear to see their money used inefficiently, > so, for everyone’s sake, they had better hoard it instead. Last week, in > response to a (very short-lived) plan by the Democrats to tax billionaires, > BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said he would happily part with more of his dosh if > there were assurances it would be spent well. “If we could find solutions > where the money could be directed in a proper way, I have more to give.” > Fellow billionaire Ray Dalio also said he would willingly pay more tax if it > accomplished “greater productivity” but sadly, he wasn’t sure that it did. > Musk, meanwhile, insinuated that he was doing us all a favour by not paying > more tax. “My plan is to use the money to get humanity to Mars and preserve > the light of consciousness,” he tweeted last Thursday. A couple of days later > he darkly warned that a billionaire tax would trickle down. “Eventually they > run out of other people’s money, and then they come for you.” -- "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." ☤>$ uǝlƃ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/