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Do you understand how wealth is made?

Just think about it for half a second.

You have resources, like money, stuff and time. That is your wealth. Now, how do you earn more wealth? Maybe by working? Let's say 1 hour of your time is $100 worth, if you work 1 hr and get $100, You just change 1 resource for another. So if you trade your time for money, you didn't earn wealth. But what if you don't actually work a full hr but get paid $100 anyway, then you increased your wealth, but you also stole wealth from your employer after all, they paid you for 1 hr of work. Alternatively, you can work 1 hr but get paid $110, then you could argue that you don't cheat your employer as they agreed to the deal but they still lose wealth as they get less than what it cost them. Let's say, you don't sell your time but your work. Well your time is still worth something but you don't sell it anymore. Your time might still be $100 per hr but you sell your e.g. Software, not your time. To have that software, you have to get it first. So you write it. But writing software is a trade too, basically another time for stuff trade, juat with yourself. So if you don't want to lose wealth, we need to calculate the cost of getting the software and sell it appropriately. Let's say the software was 1200 hrs of work. So if you want to exchange the software for money now, you need to charge $120.000 otherwise you lost wealth. So you can sell the software for more but then you again took someone else's wealth as they would be paying more for what it is worth. Selling stuff in general has that issue. Using money to buy stuff and selling more expensive included.

For you to earn wealth, someone needs to lose it.

So when a single person has a ridiculous amount of wealth, the question is "is their time worth that much?"

Elon musk is roughly 28,382,400 minutes old. Forbes estimated his wealth to 838 billions. For his wealth to be justifiable, 1 minute of his time would need to be worth $29.525.

A heart surgeon in the us earns roughly $1.200.000, they work 60-80hrs per week. A year has 52 weeks. So 52*60, 3210 hrs for $1.200.000, or 192,600 minutes. That means a heart surgeon times is worth $6,23 per minutes. 0.02% of what elon's time would need to be worth.

4,724 heart surgeons working 1 minute would be worth the same as Elon work 1 minute.

And we are ignoring that Elon wasn't working when he was 2 seconds after he was born. We are including the time Elon spend shitting his pants as a baby, and minutes of his day even when he is not working, and excluding all the time that the surgeon is not working, like when they see their family or when they were studying or a baby. So the surgeon time is much less worth and Elon's time is more worth if we would bother to make the perfect comparison.

So do you honestly and sincerely believe that elon's time is worth the same as 4724 heart surgeons even in this poor comparison that is simple wealth divided by lifetime vs salary divided by working hours?

Or.... is his wealth based on wealth that he took from others?