{"id":129597,"date":"2021-10-27T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T22:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/elon-musk-slams-billionaire-tax-eventually-they-run-out-of-other-peoples-money-and-then-they-come-for-you"},"modified":"2021-10-27T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T22:22:21","slug":"elon-musk-slams-billionaire-tax-eventually-they-run-out-of-other-peoples-money-and-then-they-come-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/elon-musk-slams-billionaire-tax-eventually-they-run-out-of-other-peoples-money-and-then-they-come-for-you","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk slams billionaire tax: \u2018Eventually, they run out of other people\u2019s money and then they come for you\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-slams-billionaire-tax-eventually-they-run-out-of-other-peoples-money-and-then-they-come-for-you2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No. Eventually billionaires will run out of OUR money, NOT the other way around. I love the things and companies he\u2019s created. I love the industries he\u2019s revolutionized and the massive Kickstart he has given to our entire species and it\u2019s extrasolar future. He is INARGUABLY a brilliant man. But he\u2019s also a shitty human being. He\u2019s like so many other brilliant people that enjoy public life and the sound of his own voice who can all too often forget that they are NOT experts in EVERYTHING ELSE just because experts on something else. Musk is just another example of that kind of ego overspill. It\u2019s not the first time he\u2019s done it, and it will NOT be the last or worst occurrence of\u2026 Let\u2019s call it the \u201cBig brain on Brad golden suitcase of indeterminate origin syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca6\ud83e\udd2f\ud83d\udca6<\/p>\n<p>\u261d\ud83d\ude44\ud83d\udcbc<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca5\ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\udca5<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Elon Musk is among those finding fault with a proposed annual tax on billionaires\u2019 unrealized capital gains by Democratic lawmakers, with the world\u2019s richest man agreeing with the view that this type of tax eventually would hit others as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. Eventually billionaires will run out of OUR money, NOT the other way around. I love the things and companies he\u2019s created. I love the industries he\u2019s revolutionized and the massive Kickstart he has given to our entire species and it\u2019s extrasolar future. He is INARGUABLY a brilliant man. But he\u2019s also a shitty human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}