>> How do you think he's worth nearly $300 billion? >He's not worth anywhere near that anymore. His net worth is mainly Tesla ans SpaceX stock options. He got them to that value by convincing investors the shares would be worth that much in the future. The amount of tax money involved pales in what investment banks payed. It was the magic of the stock market which ***of course*** was in ***no way shape or form*** influenced by the sales driven by the tax money incentives, government contracts, or [rebates](https://archive.vn/4rkP6) that customers or the companies received. >> Tesla? Yeah, tax dollars. >There was legislation which favored Tesla compared to other US automakers, as a signal to other countries that the US actually does a little to fulfill what they promised to do in the Paris agreement, but that's not a tax. Also there were some tax deductions granted by local and state governments, like they do to many new factories built, also not a tax. Giving a company favorable tax deductions over competitors and other local businesses is not discriminatory if it's for the environment. Totally has ***nothing*** to do with the companies success or Elon's stock option values due to that success. >> You are naive if you think [...] made his wealth and wasn't given it by the government >The government isn't the only player in this game. They sometimes supported him, but not with "hundreds of billions of tax money". See? It's not ***just*** the government. It's also the stupid little people who bought the cars because they were incentivised or guilted or scared into doing so! And hey while we are at it, it's not just the stupid people. It's the Paris climate agreement and those wall street investment companies doing this. So yeah you're all wrong because @xyzzy cannot see the forest from the trees, but he thinks that you can't see the forest from the trees. And this is all to ***save*** the trees.