The Madness Chronicles – Episode 37

In our 37th episode of the Insanity Chronicles, we are going to look at the madness of getting wealthy all through a pandemic. Don’t forget, madness is a point out of becoming mentally sick, seriously, very foolish behavior, and a type of frenzied or chaotic action. Let us get a look at the insanity of pandemic revenue.

As we start off this journey, hold in brain that enterprises all over the world have been shuttered, restaurants closed, and thousands and thousands of people out of do the job. With draconian lockdowns the norm, some imaginative individuals make gold lemonade from the sour lemons the rest of the planet get pleasure from.

Consider Elon Musk, for instance. A younger entrepreneur, a billionaire creator of Tesla. You know that fancy electric motor vehicle with the battery that expenditures additional than most other motor vehicles. ZeroHedge reviews that in the earlier calendar year, assume pandemic, lockdowns, and masks, Musks’ web really worth quadrupled to above $100 billion. Which is a whole lot of funds, no issue how you say it. Very remarkable, wouldn’t you say?

Well, just like anything in 2020, this would seem a little bit off. Whilst Tesla proves, ‘profitable’ a peak less than the addresses demonstrates a bizarre 2020 story. From 2010 to 2020, though reporting ‘profits,’ Tesla has accrued a staggering financial debt of $5.6 billion. But wait, were not there income at Tesla? Of training course, but it looks they appear in the type of selling’ regulatory credits’. Which netted them a awesome $397 million last calendar year. So their earnings arrived from ‘regulatory credits’ not selling new Tesla’s.

Purely speculation on my aspect, but Musk is employing the very same accounting business that Dr. Tony Fauci and the CDC use to estimate Wuhan virus fatalities. I marvel how you get in on selling’ regulatory credits’? Nevertheless, Elon Musk is now the second richest male in the environment to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.

Speaking of Bezos, Forbes experiences that because the pandemic started, Bezos’ fortunes have greater to over $230 billion, soaring in excess of $90 billion in the calendar year of the pandemic. Maintain in mind that is billion with a B. Other billionaires were not as lucky. Consider Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist, and self-proclaimed vaccine expert, Monthly bill Gates. Their wealth jumped a paltry 20%, placing his net well worth at $118 billion given that March. The deer in the headlights Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg did significantly greater than Gates with an 85% acquire to $101.2 billion.

In general the United States is household to 644 billionaires. The current market need to be as fickle as the virus by itself because these billionaires’ wealth rose almost $1 trillion. That places these 644 folks now worthy of $3.88 trillion. That would be with a T. During the pandemic their fortunes rose by an astounding $934 billion. The $3.88 trillion wealth of these 644 everyday individuals is just about double the $2.1 trillion worthy of of the base 50% of our country’s inhabitants, whose net value was not increasing.

Pandemics, it turns out, are funny issues. In accordance to the CDC, this would be the third pandemic in my life time. I experienced no thought the very first two occurred, and listed here we have this a single exactly where you can catch it if you go to church but not if you go to Walmart. The damn thing need to impression the economic fortunes the very same way. The small sliver of unmeasurable billionaires gains a fortune. At the identical time, 50% of the rest are remaining sitting down at the visitors light-weight. Strange periods this 2020 has been.

May possibly we wake from this madness in advance of it truly is way too late. I would like you superior well being, and right until following time, have enjoyment, get pleasure from existence, and check out out for the insanity among us. It is 2020, and it truly is finding out of hand.