> The thing is, Elon Musk could buy everyone in the world a Tesla if he wanted to.”
Is there a name for this kind of math error? For this to be true, a Tesla would have to cost something like $30.
I've seriously gotten into debates about Medicare and Medicaid and how it costs $1.5 trillion per year and how it would at-least double in costs to cover the nation and people honestly think billions in the country could be taxed to fund it. The willful ignorance that even if we took every single dollar they own it would barely give us any runway with no one left to tax after.
This is a quote from a frustrated car owner who conversationally exaggerated. Did you read the article?