Gini Coefficient

Gini Coefficient on wikipedia

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

The world knows it has had its pockets picked. It is not sure exactly how or even precisely by whom it was done. But such details and concerns seem increasingly secondary now. Almost quaint.

Check your Gini coefficients industrialized nations.

2:47 PM · Oct 20, 2019

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

It’s an interesting question:

@Tesla
@boringcompany
@X
Optimus
@xai
Starlink
OpenAI
@SpaceX
Etc…

@elonmusk appears to be the *ONLY* billionaire we have who grasps that interstellar existence is the top priority for an advanced WMD-enabled species sharing one single atmosphere.

12:12 PM · Sep 19, 2025

Bernie Sanders

@BernieSanders

Tesla is proposing a deal that could give Elon Musk $2 trillion in wealth, more than the bottom 59% of Americans combined.

Does anybody in America think this is sane?

8:25 PM · Sep 18, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

It’s not that I don’t hear what you are saying @BernieSanders. But here is an argument you may not be considering.

Assume that Elon is not *consuming* that wealth.

Instead imagine that he is ALLOCATING. Assume that he is EXECUTING on that wealth. And that he is RISK MANAGING that wealth. Is he doing a better job of that than the bottom 59% of Americans you mentioned? I don’t know the answer to that. But he’s not likely to be gold-plating his herds of emerald encrusted winged Pygmy giraffes in his spare time. [Even if that would be totally wild.]

Assume that @elonmusk is effectively a funny kind of shadow US government. A government with no army. A government with out earthly territorial boundaries or ambitions.

Assume what this Elon-government does is pick up important distressed projects that probably should have been initiated or managed by the U.S. government in your understanding of the world.

Energy initiatives. Infrastructure initiatives. AI security and defense initiatives. Communications and Transportation.

Assume that he is funded at a government level to cover for increasing U.S. government failure to your way of thinking about government’s role in society.

Simply: Elon *is* being funded at a near governmental level because these are government scale projects.

And it’s going to go up. Why? Because we are going to continue to fail at these things. So there is going to have to be an education initiative. And a health initiative.

Here is a crazy idea. Either we get Manattan Project level US Government competence back or we admit defeat and introduce his team to all the drugs, foosball tables, airspace rights, hot chicks/dudes, tax incentives. HR exemptions, energy drinks, high explosives and arid western land they need for a permanent “Ad Astra” High-IQ Burning Man encampment to keep themselves motivated around the clock.

Either works.

12:12 PM · Sep 19, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

I have no idea if this is the right level of compensation. Tell me how good we are going to be at:

I) ALLOCATION
II) EXECUTION
III) RISK MANAGEMENT

of U.S. Government initiatives and responsibilities. Maybe he needs more. Maybe he needs less.

This wouldn’t be my first choice either @BernieSanders. It’s too much Key Man Risk. I don’t even think it would be his choice either!

But if we are determined to fail as a nation, chaining our one-man failover/backup government to the radiator by taking away his capital out of jealousy wouldn’t seem like a smart idea.

Maybe we could give him even more money and tell him to use it for an inequality initiative to reduce Gini coefficients. I’m open to it. Sounds crazy right? To me too. But it might work!

By the way, I voted for you Bernie.

I know you are trying and have a good heart. But you/we have been losing the plot for many years now.

And things moved on.

12:18 PM · Sep 19, 2025

@adent42

@Lurker_At_Large

I would have herds of emerald encrusted winged Pygmy giraffes if I was Elon rich. Probably explains why I'm not 😞

12:20 PM · Sep 19, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@Lurker_At_Large Most of us would.

12:27 PM · Sep 19, 2025

DopaVash

@TheDopaVash

"gold-plating his herds of emerald encrusted winged Pygmy giraffes" is my favorite thing about this post. 🤣

12:40 PM · Sep 19, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@TheDopaVash There were a lot of socialists around when I grew up. I learned how they think.

12:40 PM · Sep 19, 2025

Garrett_Watton

@Garrett_Watton

And you have publicly criticized him for spending time on rockets and not funding academic physicists

12:44 PM · Sep 19, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

@Garrett_Watton I’m not his cheerleader or his PR department. I admire what I admire and criticize what I see as being wrong. But I have been broadly supportive.

I also make errors.

And? So? Your point?

1:06 PM · Sep 19, 2025

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Consciousness must expand from Earth or face certain extinction in a short amount of time by cosmic standards

2:11 PM · Sep 19, 2025

Eric Weinstein

@ericweinstein

lfg.

2:23 PM · Sep 19, 2025

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