{"id":84695,"date":"2025-08-05T07:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84695"},"modified":"2025-08-05T07:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:16:01","slug":"30-billion-or-i-wont-come-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/08\/05\/30-billion-or-i-wont-come-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"$30 billion or I won’t come to work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk has trashed the US government this year, albeit not quite single-handedly, but he tried.<\/p>\n

Now he is trashing Tesla by demanding<\/a> $30 billion of new shares, or he says he won't come to work any more.<\/p>\n

Bizarrely, the Tesla board have granted him the shares when refusing them should have been the easiest and most logical business decision that could ever have been made in history.<\/p>\n

That decision confirms my instinct that such companies should not have a penny or cent of pensioner funds ever go near them. They are set up for exploitation by a few, and not for the benefit of those they are meant to serve.<\/p>\n

How do I know? That's easy. It's because giving Musk $30 billion of shares did not change the worth of Tesla (which is still falling as coin sumers boycott the company). Instead, it appropriated value from other shareholders to give it to Musk. That's the essence of this. The bull demanded and got the other people's share, quite literally, just as I explained has been the behaviour of the wealthy for a very long time, in a recent video on their behaviour.<\/p>\n

That boycott should continue, but not just by consumers. The so-called investment community needs to walk away as well.<\/div>\n
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Elon Musk has trashed the US government this year, albeit not quite single-handedly, but he tried. Now he is trashing Tesla by demanding $30 billion
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