00:02:53.520Elon Musk's rise to trillionaire status is not a time to celebrate.
00:02:56.280It's a call to action to take on the unprecedented income and wealth inequality that now exists and the greed and power of a ruling class that is destroying the social fabric of America.
00:03:04.240Our democracy cannot survive when one man who has contributed $290 million to get Trump elected becomes $700 billion richer since he got elected.
00:03:12.940Our economy cannot sustain itself when one man owns more wealth than the bottom half of our society, when 60% of our people have paycheck to paycheck,
00:03:20.660When we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major nation and when our kids have a lower standard of living than their parents, this is not about wealth.
00:05:17.000With the Tesla cars, it was impossible for a lot of reasons, but mainly batteries.
00:05:24.820And I think that's why we want Greenland to get minerals to run these batteries.
00:05:30.840And he said, you know what, and charging stations.
00:05:33.500And so all the big guys said it won't work.
00:05:37.340Elon Musk, with his first principle thinking, deconstructed all those assumptions and said,
00:05:43.940you know what, I'm going to do it this way.
00:05:46.700What are his other first principle thinking?
00:05:48.900These tubes between cities, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
00:05:53.180And then his ultimate first principle thought is life on Mars.
00:05:57.260The reason Elon Musk deserves it is because with first principle thinking, he took the impossible that the smartest people in the world agreed was impossible and then made it possible.
00:06:12.140And when you start trying to take away incentives to do big things, you are taking away the concept of the American dream.
00:06:22.720So what do you say to Warren and to Bernie and them saying, you know, I cannot believe how much wealth he has.
00:06:29.220This is not good. We shouldn't see something like this.
00:06:31.660I'd say to them, what do you want him to do? Do you want him to stop?
00:06:34.980Do you want autonomous vehicles or not? Do you want us to be first in space?
00:06:41.180Do you want us to have colonies to go to? Do you want driverless cars?
00:06:45.120Look, autonomous vehicles put me out of business in a lot of ways.
00:06:48.860but guess what 43,000 people aren't killed a year if he gets his way so look here's the thing that
00:06:57.780I think is driving most of it it's a phrase you all have heard many times comparison is the thief
00:07:04.620of joy and I believe what drives a lot of this is just pure unadulterated envy for a guy who
00:07:12.900look the guy's off he's somewhere on a spectrum we don't know he stays high half of the day
00:07:20.420but he's a genius and he's a first principle thinker so I think they're off base great
00:07:26.860teaching by the way very very good teaching and folks if you're watching this this is why I love
00:07:31.420talking to John if you truly want to experience what it is to go become wealthy have a good
00:07:35.740family enjoy yourself this guy's a lot of fun as well go support his book life is luck Tom your
00:07:41.000thoughts on the story with, and by the way, let's
00:10:51.800All they want to do, and it's such an attractive message,
00:10:54.720If you're just talking about first principles, if you just don't know anything and you're like, he's a trillionaire, we should take his money.
00:11:01.220All they want to do is seize, tax, blame, shift blame.
00:11:07.180Don't look at all the corruption we're doing.
00:11:15.380Barely a millionaire, a billionaire, trillionaire, take his money.
00:11:19.200What they don't want to focus on is all the benefits that the billionaires have done for society.
00:11:24.220The funniest things to me is sometimes you'll see, like, somebody working on their computer with their cell phone, with a Starbucks, saying, like, socialism rocks.
00:11:32.860It's like all the products you're using were built by capitalists.
00:11:37.280But it's cognitive dissonance, and they just want to.
00:11:39.860Yeah, and one of the reasons I was going to tell you that I write in there is this.
00:15:16.940In 2011, the Obama administration requested to completely cancel the NASA Constellation program was a $9 billion effort to return astronauts to the moon to look for minerals.
00:20:24.320I mean, so, I mean, think about the failures that he's had and the people who walked away from him not believing.
00:20:32.480And so that's what I would tell Elizabeth Warren.
00:20:34.920And mind you, Elizabeth Warren and the Bernie Sanders, it's always, by the way, and I think it's all political, obviously.
00:20:41.100These are the same people that are probably making that tweet from a private jet and going to one of his $3 million homes where he's like, no, no, he's trying to BS.
00:20:51.520And Adam said this a while ago, and he said it multiple times.
00:20:55.240This is the future, John, of the Democratic Party.
00:20:59.420It's, hey, the rich, it's the socialism, it's the communism,
00:21:02.840it's the rich are too rich, let's take it all and just give it to us.