“Honestly, I’m not Buffett’s number one fan. He sits there all day reading financial statements and is super boring. Does anyone want this job? I think most people don’t, anyway, I don’t want to do it.”
The world’s richest man and Tesla CEO Elon Musk “tagged” on Warren Buffett’s boring work in the latest interview. At the same time, Musk also defended Buffett’s personal wealth of approximately $100 billion.
On December 13, local time, Time magazine announced that Elon Musk was selected as the magazine’s 2021 man of the year.
In an interview with Time Magazine’s Man of the Year, Musk was asked: “Today, as the richest man in the world, as the world’s richest man, do you think a personal Should I have so much wealth?”
In fact, Musk used the example of Buffett to answer this sharp question ingeniously. “He never engages in crazy conspicuous consumption. Therefore, although he has a high net worth, he is engaged in economically useful work. He is very good at this, and maybe he should continue to do it.” < br>
In the investigation report released by the non-profit news agency ProPublica in June this year, billionaires such as Musk, Warren Buffett and Jeff Bezos were named and criticized . The report pointed out that the 25 wealthiest people in the United States paid only $13.6 billion in taxes from 2014 to 2018, while their net worth increased by $401 billion. Based on this calculation, the actual tax rate they pay is 3.4%, which is almost negligible compared to their huge wealth.
This report has intensified the appeal of Democratic politicians to collect “Billionaires Income Tax.” The tax is levied on approximately 700 super-rich individuals who have held assets of more than US$1 billion or annual income of more than US$100 million for three consecutive years. If this tax policy is implemented, Musk will pay up to $50 billion in taxes within five years. 
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Faced with this criticism, Buffett previously promised toMore than 99% of net assets are donated to charity. Since 2006, he has donated half of his nearly 475,000 Berkshire Class A shares. Musk publicly opposed the proposal on social media, saying that the huge fiscal expenditure of the US government is the problem. He warned Americans: “They will find you after they have spent other people’s money.” 
In this interview, Musk did not shy away from accusing these politicians of trying to control private assets. “The government’s expropriation of assets is actually promoted by a group of politicians. They are actually saying that resources should not be controlled by private individuals, but by the government. In other words, they want to control assets.”
Musk also responded to many negative news surrounding him and Tesla in an interview with Time magazine.
Regarding the number of self-driving safety accidents in Tesla vehicles this year, Musk said that statistics make it clear that non-autonomous driving has a higher accident rate than self-driving. “This is not to say that autonomous driving is perfect. Obviously, there is still a lot of work to be done for autonomous driving without human control at all. If it can be achieved in complex traffic conditions, there is almost no need for human intervention, or to do The probability of accidents under autonomous driving is much lower than that of human driving. At that time, it is reasonable to make cars drive autonomously without too much human attention.”
At the same time, Musk also said that he is not worried that Ford, GM, Rivian, Lucid and other car companies will threaten Tesla’s leading position. He emphasized that Tesla’s mission is always to set an example for the automotive industry, and hopes that others will join in the manufacture of electric vehicles to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.
Musk, who has 300 billion fortunes and 65 million fans, is not only the richest man in history, but also one of the most influential people in the world. As the once richest man in the world, Warren BuffettThe achievements of Musk, the richest man, have been fully affirmed, and he has also criticized his controversial remarks on Twitter.
When asked whether naive remarks such as arguing with the ruler on Twitter and satirizing Bezos would have a negative impact on his brand, Musk said: “Frankly speaking, I haven’t considered brand optimization much. This is obvious in my tweets. Usually it hurts me. Sometimes I think it’s humorous, but others don’t think so.”
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The “Red Pill” originated from a dialogue between the protagonist in the movie “The Matrix”: Morpheus told Neo that he had been living in a computer-simulated world and gave Neo two choices : Either take the blue pill and go back to the virtual world and forget everything; or take the red pill to learn the truth about the Matrix. 
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