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- Elon Musk, PayPal Pioneer, Is Paper-Rich, Cash-Poor http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/business/22sorkin.html 52 comments
- Dan O'Dowd is the rich tech CEO spending millions to stop Elon Musk https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/13/dan-odowd-challenges-tesla-musk/ 2 comments
- Being really rich doesn’t make you clever – as Elon Musk has so adeptly shown https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-420-a8483291.html 2 comments
- Private Texts Reveal World’s Rich and Famous Groveling to Elon Musk https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmybv/private-texts-reveal-worlds-rich-and-famous-groveling-to-elon-musk 4 comments
- Elon Musk Has an Idea to Make Us All Rich Someday. Meet Optimus the Robot https://www.barrons.com/articles/elon-musk-optimus-the-robot-51643662391?tesla=y 2 comments
- Elon Musk, a.k.a. Tony Stark, Is Paper-Rich, Cash-Poor http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/business/22sorkin.html?ref=business 69 comments business
- Elon Musk says Biden's desire to tax the ultra-rich would 'upset a lot of donors' https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-joe-biden-plan-tax-rich-upset-democratic-donors-2023-6 1762 comments politics
- How rich is Elon Musk? A side scrolling adventure https://engaging-data.com/how-rich-is-elon-musk/ 722 comments dataisbeautiful
- Rich Russians Are Begging Elon Musk to Sell Them Teslas http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-06/rich-russians-beg-musk-sell-us-your-iphone-on-wheels- 12 comments worldnews
- Elon Musk is committing a crime but it doesn’t matter because he’s rich https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-is-committing-a-crime/ 263 comments politics
- Elon Musk Denies That SpaceX's Mars Colony Will Be a Ticket Out for the Rich https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-denies-that-spacexs-mars-colony-will-be-a-tic-1830640399?ir=t 3 comments technology
- Elon Musk Denies That SpaceX's Mars Colony Will Be a Ticket Out for the Rich https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-denies-that-spacexs-mars-colony-will-be-a-tic-1830640399 13 comments space
- Elon Musk isn’t too rich to be corrupt with DOGE. Just the opposite. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-money-doge-myth-rich-rcna192800 44 comments economy
- Elon Musk is on track to become a trillionaire by 2027. Here's why the rich keep getting richer https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/12/elon-musk-could-become-worlds-first-trillionaire.html 65 comments economy
- Tesla Decline sees Elon Musk’s Fortune Take a $62B Hit On World'sTop 10 Rich List https://www.forbes.com.au/news/billionaires/top-10-richest-people-in-the-world-march-2025/ 76 comments economics
- TIL Elon Musk was born rich (“We were very wealthy, we had so much money at times we couldn't even close our safe.”) https://thelittlefacts.com/is-elon-musk-from-a-wealthy-family/ 3 comments technology
- UN Food Chief Details How Mega-Rich Like Elon Musk Could Spend Just $6.6 Billion to Avert Deadly Famine | "This hunger crisis is urgent, unprecedented, and avoidable," said the head of the World Food https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/16/un-food-chief-details-how-mega-rich-elon-musk-could-spend-just-66-billion-avert 9 comments worldnews
- Elon Musk was born rich. "We had so much money we couldn't even close our safe" https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-dad-tells-bi-about-the-familys-casual-attitude-to-wealth-2018-2?ir=t 335 comments economy
- Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos And Other Ultra-Rich In Crosshairs? Economist Says 'No Going Back' On 2% Minimum Billionaires' Tax Proposal https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-other-190710005.html 52 comments economy
- New Hampshire’s Governor Thinks Elon Musk Is Too Rich for Conflicts of Interest https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/elon-musk-conflict-interest-chris-sununu-new-hampshire-governor-cnn-dana-bash/ 83 comments politics
- ‘We’re All Paying for It’: Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/kash-patel-elon-musk-fight-1235271941/ 40 comments politics
- If you paid just $1 in federal income taxes in 2018, you paid more than Elon Musk — a centibillionaire now worth $151,700,000,000. Quite literally: TAX THE RICH. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1402668973158801411 58 comments economy
- ‘To The Moon’—Elon Musk’s Dramatic Return To Crypto Falls Flat As He Slides Further Down Global Rich List https://www.forbes.com.au/news/billionaires/elon-musk-falls-behind-bezos-in-rich-list-amid-tesla-slump/ 7 comments wallstreetbets
- Kamala Harris's campaign mocks X interview with Donald Trump, Elon Musk as ‘self-obsessed rich guys … who cannot run a livestream’ https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4825312-kamala-harris-donald-trump-elon-musk-x-interview-tech-issues/ 94 comments politics
- 'He's a rich, arrogant guy who cares about nothing but his money': Some Tesla workers slam Elon Musk after he went on a rant calling stay-at-home orders 'fascist' https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-workers-slam-elon-musk-calling-stay-home-orders-fascist-2020-4 199 comments politics
- Since this is probably the last day I can tweet this, can I just remind folks that Elon Musk is a union-busting billionaire who inherited money from his dad's apartheid-era emerald mines? Tax the rich + unionize Twitter now! https://twitter.com/RanaForCongress/status/1518675747640123395 89 comments economy
- Modern-day robber baron Elon Musk increased his wealth by $36.2 billion in one day last month. Meanwhile, our tax code enabled him to pay zero federal income taxes in 2018. The system is rigged for the rich. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1458087235644018705 322 comments economy
- Modern-day robber baron Elon Musk increased his wealth by $6 billion in one day last week. Meanwhile, our tax code enabled him to pay zero federal income taxes in 2018. The system is rigged for the rich. https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1409598511293685760 109 comments economy
- But that's true for every other coin, right? ‘Bitcoin Just Gives Power To New Rich People’—Elon Musk Reveals Why He Supports Dogecoin Over Ethereum Even As Its Price Slides https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2021/12/23/bitcoin-just-gives-power-to-new-rich-people-elon-musk-reveals-why-he-supports-dogecoin-over-ethereum-even-as-its-price-slides/?sh=2bff83b333c7&utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_content=6109479404&utm_campaign=sprinklrForbesCrypto 38 comments cryptocurrency
- Privacy for the rich. In a record setting pace congress quietly passed a bill that makes it impossible to track private jets after billonaires like Elon Musk and Taylor Swift complain https://gizmodo.com/congress-just-made-it-way-harder-to-track-taylor-swift-1851492383 734 comments privacy
- We are halfway to the next BCH halving, and BCH is trading at 2017 prices. At some point there will be a supply shock, as at these low prices just a few rich investors can buy up the entire supply and then pump it, like what Elon Musk did to other cryptos. https://halvingdates.com/crypto.php?name=Bitcoin+Cash&sym=bch 43 comments btc
- Elon Musk Won’t Protect Free Speech Online: Instead of counting on an allegedly benevolent billionaire like Elon Musk to guard free speech online by buying companies like Twitter, we should just take our digital public square out of rich people’s hands and into public ownership. https://jacobinmag.com/2022/04/elon-musk-billionaire-twitter-acquisition-free-speech 7 comments technology