It’s 7pm, June 13, 2024 and I was tucking myself in for a good nights sleep (until my first urination break) when the news hit my phone. Honestly, it is a beautiful 80 degree, dry, clear night in Upstate New York, one of those magical nights you won’t get in the south, so I really wasn’t going to sleep…just hanging out in my open window and if sleep came…blessed be the Lord. No tucking in, in other words.

That’s why the phone wasn’t off so I heard the news: Elon Musk is paying himself $48 billion dollars for his efforts this year. Hang tight, while I go throw up.

Can he now say he has more money than God? An even sadder part of the story was the reporting that over 340 CEOS paid themselves record wages this, year. RECORD WAGES. THIS YEAR.

If there is anyone reading this who knows where all this CEO pay is coming from, raise your hand. People who make this kind of money (or people who aspire to), will tell you he’s worth it. Musk’s shareholders, for example, APPROVED the pay by vote. Wonder how much of $48 billion goes back to them? Or what would have happened to those who voted against it?

It is the consummate Capitalist F*@&-you, from a part of our society who cares about NO ONE, not a liberal or conservative, Dem or Repub, racist or homophobe or Christian or Atheist, or…correction. Musk cares about us all because we are where the money is coming from. He needs us.

But he needs us a certain way. He needs us to consume and not ask questions, not wonder how much something is really worth. All the Teslas burning and being recalled? They don’t matter much. Might have cost him a few million in compensation, but who cares?

It is important to declare Musk is (probably) not doing anything illegal. Just taking advantage of a system we could all benefit from if we are as greedy, selfish, and egotistical as he is, and as are most billionaires. They see the American Public (and the world) as dollar signs, as sheep to be fleeced.

And we are a very easy population to fleece, as long as we focus on and argue about homosexuality, transgenderism, racism, religions under attack, elections being stolen. Next time you argue with someone who you think is bad for America, be sure to put your hands in your pockets so the CEOS can’t pick your pocket as you make your political points

If someone on the right or the left of the political spectrum wants to lose their mind over a conspiracy, try to figure out why anyone in the world could get away with paying himself $48 billion FOR ONE YEAR and not hear a peep about it.

Again, where, and on who, will a lot of the $48billion be spent. You could buy almost anything.