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America doesn’t despise Elon Musk nearly enough.
The guy is a monster, and reminds us every single day.
Billionaires are leeches.
I mean, how else can you describe it? How many more times do we have to hear stories about the lengths they are willing to go just to amass more wealth and power before we realize they are nothing to aspire to be like? Perhaps one of the only silver linings of the pandemic over the past eighteen months has been the fact that more and more people are beginning to understand and resent the growing disparity between the class of America’s wealthiest elite, and the rest of us. It’s difficult not to notice, really, considering the fact that at a time when millions of people lost their jobs and hundreds of thousands more died while billionaires are doubling their wealth, swimming in riches we truly cannot even begin to comprehend.
With Amazon being such a dominant force throughout the country for American consumers, it’s easy to see how Jeff Bezos seems to draw some of the most intense scrutiny when we’re reminded regularly of just how much wealth the man has. It wasn’t long ago where I remember doing the math, and realizing that the man could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every day from the birth of Jesus until now, and still not be able to spend all the money he has.
