Billionaire Conspires To Bring Down Uk Government

[Untitled]

Elon Musk has reportedly met with allies and cronies to discuss how he can best leverage his resources to topple the British government according to the FT

https://www.reuters.com/world/musk-examines-how-oust-starmer-uk-premier-before-next-election-ft-reports-2025-01-09/
 

is it really a good idea to allow individual people to get so wealthy that they can conspire to remove foreign governments?

should mr musk and his allies be considered a threat to the UK?

i think i'd like to know who are the people he met with. 

[ToraToraTora]

think of anything in the room you are in right now and I guaranteee it would not exist if the endeavour to create it was stifled. The computer you are using for a start, the TV, the records, DVDs, CDs etc you own. You have a car right?

[Untitled]

i'm talking about individual net worth tora. i.e. a company can grow as big as it needs to but an individual's personal stake cannot exceed $100 million. Fwiw if we lived in an untitledocracy i would also encourage formation of co-operatives above companies but that's another argument. $100 million sounds like a perfectly reasonable ceiling to me. it lavishly rewards aspiration but prevents private individuals from becoming oligarchs. 
 

i predict we'll see the rise of trillionaires and multitrillionaires in my lifetime... a degree of wealth which really does let people shape whole countries to their will. if we let things get to that point then we truly won't be living in a democracy anymore and the world's transition to oligarchy will be complete. personally i think that is worth stopping. 
 

what do you think about elon musk conspiring to use his resources to remove the UK prime minister?

[Khandro]

The simple way would be for Musk to simply & secretely pay him to go. For a few million quid, who wouldn't at least give the offer some consideration. 😉

[beancrisp]

How is exposing Keir Starmer as a rape apologist trying to topple the British government?

[Atheist]

I don't believe that Starmer would resign his post because of a huge bribe.

[New Judge]

"...what do you think about elon musk conspiring to use his resources to remove the UK prime minister?"

I think you need o ask a different question. How about:

"How do you think Elon Musk can conspire (and with whom) to remove the UK Prime Minster?"

Tell us what you believe these conspiracies might consist of and how they might succeed, then we can perhaps move on to your question.

[naomi24]

Untitled, if the owner's earnings from a business are limited, why would he continue to run the business?

[Untitled]

starmer is cheap ad chips lol. buy him some footie tickets and he's yours. we could probably raise enough with an AB whipround to buy a sitdown with naomi or newjudge or tora or whoever. 

[Atheist]

Spreading misinformation and lies about our PM would only be done in order to get rid of what Musk and others regard (or pretend to believe) as a communist state.

I don't think the majority of the British population would be happy for a foreign billionaire to overthrow a democraqtically elected govt.

[Untitled]

why would somebody want or need more than $100 million? there are only 30,000 people with that amount of money. it's irrelevant to all but a tiny fraction of organisations. 

[Clone]

100 million can't even buy a decent yatch.

One industry that would have to shut down.

Can you think of any more?

[ToraToraTora]

"i'm talking about individual net worth tora." - so shares don't count? Most of the billionaires have most of their money in shares.

"i.e. a company can grow as big as it needs to but an individual's personal stake cannot exceed $100 million" - So what happens then, they have shares confiscated when their value exceeds? No company could ever grow with your silly brakes on growth.

"what do you think about elon musk conspiring to use his resources to remove the UK prime minister?" - I don't like it but there is nothing he can do unless he's going to create a giant mercenary army and invade. He's no more conspiring to remove the PM than I am and any non Labour voter, he's just shooting his mouth off on ketamine.

I agree its wrong but your plan to impoverish the world with an arbitrary wealth cap is monumentally silly.

[Clone]

Messi, Ronaldo should they have stopped playing football because their earnings topped the magic 100 million?

Or play for nothing?

[naomi24]

Untitled, I don't know what your 14.20 post means - other than you're having a pop at a few people here.  You haven't answered my question at 14.18.  Too busy 'loling' at your own humour I expect

[youngmafbog]

I wonder who is going to tell the Chinese worth more than $100m then, that should be interesting.

Perhaps we could send the AB resident communist to Russia to get it all of Mr Putin too. 🤣

[New Judge]

"....starmer is cheap ad chips lol. buy him some footie tickets and he's yours."

I've got enough money to do that. Now, back to the question: How is Elon Musk to conspire to remove Mr Starmer from office?

To comment on your ridiculous wealth cap scheme, as above, many professional sports people have accumulated vast wealth. To take an example, Formula One's Lewsi Hamilon is estimated to be worth $300m. Not a patch on Mr Musk's, I agree, but considerably above your arbitrary limit. He pas paid around $115m  justt for his F1 salary alone in teh pasttwo years and probably reached your cut-off point about six or seven years ago. So what should he have done then? Driven for nothing? Stopped all his endorsement work?

Your saying "it will never happen" may be (hopefully) perfectly true. But if you come up with a proposition you should at least have the decency to explain how you believe it might work.

[max137]

How would you restrict the Saudis, Putin and Chinese communist party who own most of the world anyway, is your question a diversion from the finacial disaster in the UK whose debt payment is larger than greece.

[ToraToraTora]

There are 2 kinds of people in the world. People who point at things/people and aspire to emulate and people who point at things/people and spit envious venom. Untitled is the latter. I see a guy driving the new F-type jaaaag and think I'd love to get one of those. Untitled wants to tax his April off so he can't afford it.

[youngmafbog]

No its just the jealousy of a failed communist "Wolfie Smith".

[Deskdiary]

One of the things I've noticed with untitled is that he's never prepared to concede a point - he's always 'right'. With breathtaking naivety he commented that people were making a "fuss" about the increase in NI and the lowering of the threshold; I suspect he still believes this patently wrong stance.

 

Capping a person's wealth is a ridiculous idea.