• gex@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Let’s scale those amounts to something more understandable to non-billionaires

    Imagine earning $50k per year and buying the president’s favor for $45 per month. Elon is buying access to the most powerful person on the planet for the equivalent of a monthly phone bill.

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      3 months ago

      And what amounts to a phone bill to him could change hundreds of thousands of people’s lives for the better. But “Muh taxes…”