Elon Musk did something amazing: he became the world's first trillionaire. That, of course, has set the hordes of greedy Leftists on edge, demanding his money be confiscated for 'the greater good.'
There are several interesting things about the socialist gnashing of teeth, the first of which is something we've long known about socialists: they're driven by greed. In fact, greed is their sole driving purpose for living, whether it's financial greed, sexual greed (see: the LGBTQ activist crowd), some good old-fashioned gluttony (see: the body positivity movement), or the need for instant gratification, greed rules the day.
That's why they call the wealthy and the rest of us who prefer to keep our earnings 'greedy,' of course. It's projection. Textbook Psychology 101 stuff you learn in your freshman year of college. Bernie Sanders was so lazy that he was booted from a commune. Hasan Piker streams on Twitch. Seattle's socialist Mayor Katie Wilson had mommy and daddy paying her bills so she could work as a barista. Notice a pattern here?
Meanwhile, Elon Musk risked money and time to build companies, wealth, and value. And that's the second interesting thing about this whole trillionaire tantrum: the Left does not understand what wealth and value actually are or what they mean. They picture Musk sitting on a giant pile of gold, a la Scrooge McDuck, keeping it in a safe where the rest of us plebes can't get to it. That's not true, either. His investors and the stock market have said the value of his companies — Tesla, SpaceX, and the like — is worth more than a trillion. That does not mean Musk has fat stacks of cash to hand out.
They also believe wealth is finite. That there's only so much wealth and someone like Musk, who has a lot of it, must be stealing it from the rest of us. Much in the same way the fat kid at the birthday party eats more than his fair share of the pizza.
That's also not true. He's generating wealth. That is, creating wealth where there was none before. Some 4,400 people — including janitors — were made literal millionaires when SpaceX had its public opening. That's not counting all the people who may have invested in SpaceX, who have 401(k)s, IRAs, or other accounts. Elon Musk just made them money, too.
That value didn't exist until this week, and Musk will use it to create more wealth, more value.
To make a larger pizza pie for everyone to eat from.
Yet, somehow, we're supposed to believe that that's a bad thing.
What has Elon Musk taken from you? So ask many including Andrew Neil.
— David Yelland (@davidyelland) June 13, 2026
Here's the answer:
He has taken our peace of mind.
He has purposefully pushed us apart, divided us further and profited from our loss of community.
And that is hard to ever forgive.
As Scott Jennings pointed out earlier, had Elon Musk followed in George Soros' footsteps, this wouldn't be a story. We'd get no breathless posts about how Musk was 'purposefully pushing us apart' or that he somehow was the sole person 'controlling American policy.' It would have gotten a headline in The New York Times and everyone would have moved on with their day.
Which is funny, of course, because just a few years ago, Leftists were tripping over themselves to mandate that we not only be prohibited from purchasing any other vehicles other than Teslas and the like. Elon Musk is the same man he was then that he is now, even if the Left doesn't like his present-day politics.
Most notably, all the Leftists were eager and willing to spend, spend, spend Elon's money. That $1 trillion, we're told, could solve all the world's problems. Of course, that the U.S. government spends roughly seven times that annually and can't so much as smoothly change a lightbulb is lost on these people. But it's interesting that their first thought was to throw the money away rather than re-invest it and create more wealth. And no, I don't mean 'investing' in schools or healthcare.
The bottom line is this: Elon Musk being a trillionaire hurts no one. The sun will still rise in the East, the world will continue spinning on its axis, and life will go on as it always has. There are just a lot more people who have a few more dollars in their pockets thanks to Musk.