The ultimate litmus test for your fellow human beings?
Ask them what they think of Elon Musk’s compensation plan.
If their first response is some tired “billionaires are obscene” trope, it tells you everything you need to know:
You’re talking to someone who’s never built anything: a taker, not a maker.
But it runs deeper than ignorance — it’s envy.
That slow, corrosive sin that eats you from the inside out, warping perspective until resentment becomes your native tongue. It doesn’t wound the target, it poisons the host.
Envy demands that if one man succeeds, another must fail. It’s a philosophy of hate disguised as moral outrage. And if you carry it, you’ll pass it to your children like a curse.
Of all the billionaires on Earth, Elon Musk is perhaps the least obsessed with money. His motivation isn’t greed, it’s creation. He’s building, inventing, reshaping what’s possible. That’s the kind of wealth the world needs: value born from vision.
I stand with Elon.
Because my parents taught me gratitude, not envy.
Because I believe in builders over complainers.
And because I still have that childlike optimism, the unshakable belief that the future belongs to those who create it.
Thank you for reading.