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Last month, a screenshot of a text message on Twitter came to light. The two contacts in the text message are Musk, the current world's richest man, and Bill Gates, the former world's richest man.
The big guy talks, and there are many mysteries.
Musk sent a text message to Bill Gates, questioning him: "I heard that you bought $500 million to short
Options? ”
Gates replied, "Yes, I haven't cleared the position yet." Is it possible for us to do charity together? ”
Musk replied: "Before you finish shorting Tesla, I think you should first consider climate change, Tesla has done a lot to solve the problem of climate warming." ”
The two richest men have engaged in a fierce confrontation over the issue of shorting Tesla.
Bill Gates frankly admitted that he was hiding behind the scenes to short Tesla, under his influence, many Wall Street investment banks have followed up, short Tesla's capital scale rolled to tens of billions.
Musk texted Gates not only to confirm that he was shorting Tesla, but also to get him to reverse the decision.
But Gates insisted on his point of view, continued to sing the praises of Tesla, took care of him, and let Musk engage in charity with himself. Musk is very angry, presumably thinking in his heart: "You are engaged in my money, and you still want me to paste money and do charity with you?" What hypocrisy! ”
The United States is a country with extremely developed financial products, and it is understandable that Bill Gates snipes Tesla and earns some pocket money in addition to engaging in charity.
After all, Tesla's stock price is indeed too high, higher than the actual value. Shorting Tesla yourself is just letting the market return to rationality.
But American netizens do not recognize! Although Bill Gates and Musk are the richest people, their images are very different: Musk is the Iron Man of Silicon Valley, using dreams against reality, daring to say NO to the vampires on Wall Street! Bill Gates is a fellow Wall Street vampire, vested interested, circumventing inheritance taxes under the guise of doing charity, leaving hundreds of billions of assets intact to their children.
Wall Street shorted Tesla under the leadership of Bill Gates, and retail investors immediately set off a wave of defense for Tesla on the Internet, and they bought Tesla stock at high prices and united around Musk to fight against Wall Street's vampires.
Probably to mock Bill Gates for not paying taxes in the name of charity, Musk took the lead in paying more than 10 billion personal income taxes this year, humiliating Gates, and the two richest men were counted as the end of the bond.
In response, Bill Gates criticized Musk's acquisition of Twitter, saying in front of reporters: "I am not optimistic about this merger, Musk may make Twitter worse." ”
Bill Gates complained that I was hacked every day on Twitter, saying that I supported vaccinations to implant surveillance chips, control other people's brains, and then manipulate the whole world.
This information is all over Twitter, so why do these extreme conspiracy theories spread so quickly? Because of Twitter.
Compared with the relationship between the two groups of richest people, Bill Gates and Buffett can get along very well, why can't they get along with Musk?
Ultimately, Bill Gates and Musk represent two forces in the United States, the former symbolizing the conformist, profit-making Wall Street, and the latter representing the vast number of ordinary young people who are eager to share in the cake of wealth.
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When Bill Gates was young, like Musk, he was also a dragon slayer teenager, hoping to use technology to change the world and kill the "dragon" Wall Street.
He has dismissively said that Buffett is not worthy of respect, he is just hiding in the office, buying high and selling low speculators, sucking the blood of entrepreneurs for a living.
Gates's contempt for Buffett is inseparable from the background of the United States as a whole advocating scientific and technological innovation and manufacturing in the 1980s. At that time, aspiring young people were proud to be innovative enterprises, rather than yearning for Wall Street.
It was also from the 1980s that due to the policy bias of the Reagan administration, the Rapid Decline of the American manufacturing industry, the rise of financial groups, and after 30 years of development, controlled the entire United States.
Reagan can't be blamed for that. When Reagan took office, the United States was suffering the largest inflation in history, and prices were soaring, similar to the situation encountered by Biden today, Reagan listened to Friedman's monetary theory and raised interest rates on the dollar sharply, at one point to 12%.
The dollars in the world have returned en masse, and the interest on credit given by banks to enterprises has risen to 20%, and no enterprise will lend to banks at all! Inflation was under control, and American factories and manufacturing died together.
So Wall Street began to take over the U.S. economy. The Fed chair of the past 40 years, one counts one, 90% from Wall Street investment banks, representing the interests of financial groups.
One data shows that the life of the middle class in the United States has not improved since the 1970s. Wall Street's financial giants control 88 percent of the country's wealth.
After Bill Gates became famous, his three views changed, and he gradually realized that financiers and entrepreneurs are not simply binary opposites, and many financiers take huge risks to invest money in startups, there is a high probability of losing all their money, they are gambling with their own money.
There is nothing wrong with winning a bet, and losing a bet with nothing. As a result, Gates and Buffett reconciled, and the two sides engaged in charity and harmony together, becoming a year-old friend.
In Bill Gates's view, his own transformation is called maturity, and in the eyes of young people, it is a rebellion!
Young Americans born after 2000 are the Internet generation, and they account for most of the Internet' voice.
When they grow up, they look, good guys, dragon slayer teenagers have turned into evil dragons! Bill Gates and Buffett got together, there must be a conspiracy! They are ready to use technology + capital to enslave all mankind.
When young Americans spread these conspiracy theories on Twitter, they themselves didn't take them seriously. Later, the whole thing became darker and darker, and various so-called witnesses confirmed various rumors.
For example, a family doctor on Twitter who called himself Bill Gates said: Bill Gates never let his children get vaccinated! Because he knows there's something wrong with the vaccine!
At the end of the fight, Bill Gates personally debunked the rumors: This man is not my family doctor. But no one believed it. In the various black material + witness mode, Bill Gates has no intention of explaining.
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So far, Musk and Buffett have not dealt with it. Musk often disses the views of the stock god in public or on Twitter, alluding to the idea that the stock god is outdated.
Even though Musk is the world's richest man, he has not bowed to Wall Street, which has won him the support of tens of millions of young fans.
Buffett has a very famous theory called "moat", which means that when determining whether a company is worth investing in, it depends on whether the company has a "moat".
A "moat" can be market share, technology, scale, cost, and so on. As long as there is a reliable "moat" business, it will not go bankrupt and can invest boldly.
Musk smiled and said that no business has a "moat" and that innovation will subvert all arrogant companies.
Not to be outdone, Buffett said that I invested in Coca-Cola early on, which was the greatest investment of my life.
Today, Coca-Cola has an absolute market share, which is a "moat" that other Cokes cannot challenge. I can't imagine how Mr. Musk can disrupt the Coke industry.
Musk responded on Twitter: I'll think about it. Four years later, Musk said he was considering buying Coca-Cola — and since he couldn't beat it, he had to buy it.
Buffett said that virtual currency is a scam, and I prefer to leave a few dollars to my children and grandchildren. Musk immediately said he was considering accepting bitcoin to buy Tesla.
Implicit in this is a logic: why is virtual currency so popular in the United States? Various derivative coins emerge? Can't Americans see that this is a game of drumming and passing flowers?
Non also.
The main investors in virtual currency are young and middle-aged people under the age of 40 in the United States, who feel that their future is slim, and they do not live enough to earn $5,6000 a month by part-time work.
Simply start a monetary revolution, abandon the dollar completely, and in their words, "take back monetary sovereignty from Wall Street." Our Chinese sounds a bit fanciful, but the American social atmosphere is quite relaxed, and everyone dares to think and dare to do it.
Musk questioned Bill Gates, the new richest man questioned the old richest man, more like the younger generation of Americans questioning the previous generation of Wall Street giants: How much black money do you have to make?
Author: Jiang Zuo You'an