elon musk's net worth is an approximate $828 billion.
and if you have a hard time comprehending how absurdly big that number really is-
if elon musk acquired a time machine (🕯️ we will not manifest this 🕯️) and gave a single dollar of his wealth to every approximated human being who has ever existed on earth between the moment they could be classified as humans to this very second of reading this post
elon musk would still have approximately $688 billion to spare.
meaning if he divided up all his money equally with every single one of those humans who has ever existed, everyone would receive (valued at today's level of inflation) $5.
which isn't a lot in isolation.
but it's a number we can feasibly comprehend. we know what $5 can buy at this moment in time. we know what $5 looks like, and we know it can fit inside our pocket.
and that is $5 for each. and every. single. human being. who has ever existed.
since the dawn of recorded human history.
your mother. your grandmother. your great-great-great-great grandfather.
neil armstrong. beethoven. van gogh. shakespeare. leonardo da vinci. plato.
every member of every civilization whose history and legacies have become fairy tales. schools. hospitals. libraries. armies. households. elders. children.
and that is only counting his current net value - not the entirety of every dollar he's ever generated, spent, and hoarded, and not the entirety of every dollar he still plans to take for himself.
it should not only be legal, but mandatory, as a duty to all of mankind, to kill the rich.
so why the fuck can't we tax them.