He wants to turn twitter into Wechat, which is used for paying basically everything in China. In San Francisco you can’t just get rich by funneling money, you have to pay taxes on it.
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Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
it is impossible to operate in San Francisco if you’re processing payments
Is it though? He talks like he still runs PayPal. All Twitter sells is adverts, blue ticks and hate.
vxx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
debtfair share, you mean. His billions of debt that have about a billion of interest per year is another story
hroderic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
"It’s impossible to operate in San Francisco, they expect you to pay your rent "
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah I wonder how many billions of dollars in incentives did Texas Republicans promise that douchebag in order to get him to move to their State. And how many Texans are going to have to foot that bill.
ours@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Typical Elon, vaunting libertarianism while paying himself with Government payouts.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Privatize the profits and socialize the risks.” (for billionaires)
“But we can’t let poor people get handouts. That’s socialism.”
800XL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As of 2020, all of his companies had received around 5 billion in subsidies, tax credits, and the like.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah that’s what we call corporate welfare. What exactly did that 5 billion buy anybody? All it did was make that fucking asshole richer.