One thing that occurred to me while looking at this is that Elon’s net worth (well, until the past 24 hours……….) was approaching about 1/60th of the ENTIRE U.S. Economy!

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One thing that occurred to me while looking at this is that Elon’s net worth (well, until the past 24 hours……….) was approaching about 1/60th of the ENTIRE U.S. Economy!

What’s in a name? Or a number?
If that name and number is ‘minimum wage,’ that’s a real hot potato no matter which end of the political spectrum you fall on regarding the $15 an hour debate.


Perhaps this will provide a bit of perspective: marked in red are those countries whose collective wealth of every single man, woman, and child is less than a single man: Elon Musk. You’ll note this is true for virtually every single country on the African continent.

