I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America

pluc

Currently one share is worth $146 Musk could give everyone in the USA $3000 and still have money left. Or everyone in the world about the same price as one SpaceX share - $124.5.

damnesian

Which would benefit him personally. Guy doesn't know the meaning of the term "charity."

bell-cot

Not a Muskologist, but this feels like a good opportunity to talk to the kids about flamboyant public figures and grains of salt.

zippyman55

Maybe the tobacco companies can give out free cigarettes.

saidnooneever

shit everyone hates me. quick, give them money.

bilsbie

Extremely sad to read to the responses here.

bilsbie

Interesting commentary: https://x.com/brivael/status/2112116234258894877

xvxvx

72M children in the US. 72M shares is 1.5% of his current amount, totaling $10.5B, which is 1.16% of his wealth. One share is worth $146. On average, it will be 9 years before these kids turn 18 and can touch the share. In its first few months of public trading, SpaceX ranged from an intraday high of $225.64 in June to a low of $104.83 in August, before closing at $146.03 on October 16. So the future value could be substantially higher—or lower—than the value at the time of the gift. This is Elon venturing into the ‘Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’ territory where the super rich whitewash their public profiles. I assume he received information that the Democrats are about to wipe the floor with Republicans and his influence will nosedive. It also works as a bribe of sorts, tying the success of his companies to American children. Any politician that interferes with his God complex will be taking money from their pockets.

4d4m

Lot of negativity here around what should be a positive anecdote. Cool move, will likely inspire some kids towards engineering later in life.

WheelsAtLarge

Smart move. For less than 11 billion, he will have at least a generation of taxpayers on his side, with a positive view of SpaceX. Bezos better start talking about doing the same thing, otherwise, his company will be at a deficit.

thelastgallon

This is bribery 101. All these kids will feel indebted to Musk forever. And sign his praises to everyone. Simple trick covered in Influence — The Psychology of Persuasion. https://medium.com/@mappmechanic/influence-the-psychology-of... Second Principle in the book is — “Reciprocation”, The Old Give and Take… This principle means that we should try to repay, in kind, what another person has provided us. This is by far, the most universal & widely used method of influence I have seen around the Globe in all communities. Also, this principle has been used since eternity as the archeologist Richard Leakey tells: “We are human because our ancestors learned to share their food & their skills in an honoured network of obligation.” In order to understand its underpinnings let us see a practice used by the famous Hare Krishna/ISKCON society for fund raising. In the 80’s or 90’s, many people from this society used to be standing in public places & would quickly greet passerby with a small flower like Rose as a gift and in most cases passerby fail to return it as the solicitor says it is a ‘Gift’ from our side. This is a perfect example of rule of reciprocation. Now that the passerby has received a gift so he is indebted to the Krishna’s volunteer. Now the volunteer would quickly ask for a donation and in most of the cases the passerby would not deny and give something.

dabinat

People should not be fawning over the “generosity” of a man who wants to put most of you out of work.