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The guy, no, I mean child, who recently whined that he wasn't getting $50+ billion compensation package doesn't have a problem throwing $45 million a month to another child. Because "money." Obscene.
Let's scale those amounts to something more understandable to non-billionaires
Imagine earning $50k per year and buying the president's favor for $45 per month. Elon is buying access to the most powerful person on the planet for the equivalent of a monthly phone bill.
And what amounts to a phone bill to him could change hundreds of thousands of people's lives for the better. But "Muh taxes..."