The Trillion-Dollar Lie: How Elon Musk Actually Got Rich | w/ Prof. Richard Wolff
June 24, 2026
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as posted by the channelOne man now holds more wealth than the bottom 46% of humanity combined: SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO (despite the company hemorrhaging billions in 2025) reportedly made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire – all on the backs of exploited labor, tax avoidance, and with the help of at least $30 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits to Musk’s businesses.
What kind of “monster”? What do Musk’s new title and Trump’s “great” economy have to do with hyper-capitalists’ predictions of a major crash to come? And which stage of history has Peter Theil and his ultra-rich ‘Dialog’ secret society friends meeting in Ireland to plan for World War III?
Dr. Richard Wolff, professor of economics and founder of Democracy at Work, joins BT Live to explain.
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