Pope Leo warns that the world is in 'big trouble' if Elon Musk becomes the first trillionaire

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If Pope Leo XIV had a seat on Tesla’s board, Elon Musk’s newly proposed trillion-dollar paycheck would be dead on arrival.

The 70-year-old pontiff slammed the widening income gap between the working class and the wealthy—specifically calling out the Tesla CEO as an egregious example of executive excess.

“CEOs that 60 years ago might have been making four to six times more than what the workers are receiving, the last figure I saw, it’s 600 times more than what average workers are receiving,” he told Catholic news site Crux in an interview released Sunday.

“Yesterday, the news that Elon Musk is going to be the first trillionaire in the world: What does that mean and what’s that about? If that is the only thing that has value anymore, then we’re in big trouble.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pope-leo-warns-world-big-151657581.html

[Torchlight]

1. It's a good (and needed) message

Our culture often chooses to ignore a hard truth: one person’s excess frequently comes at another person’s expense, and this becomes more evident with each passing year (to paraphrase Martin Luther). When this reality is pointed out, the reaction is more often than not defensive... especially from those with privilege.

It reveals (to me) how easily the wealthy are unsettled by challenges to their self-importance. In truth, the rich are not as essential as they imagine, while the poor are far more significant (and resilient) than society allows itself to believe.

[flvegan]

2. "Woke Pope is broke Pope!!"

- dumbass MAGA chud Catholics, probably