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After a Twitter vote: Musk sells ten percent of his Tesla shares - mega-sum comes together

2021-11-13T22:14:39.667Z


The richest person in the world right now, Elon Musk, just got wealthier after an incredible Twitter poll. He sold ten percent of his Tesla stock.


The richest person in the world right now, Elon Musk, just got wealthier after an incredible Twitter poll.

He sold ten percent of his Tesla stock.

Palo Alto - For the billionaire Tesla boss Elon Musk, it is by no means uncommon to cause one or two surprises on Twitter.

Most recently, he offered the United Nations World Food Program through the intelligence service to donate six billion dollars if the organization could actually stop world hunger.

Among other things, such campaigns ensure that 63.5 million people currently follow his account.

With the Twitter survey on whether or not to sell parts of his Tesla shares, the 50-year-old went one step further - and became even richer.

Elon Musk can vote on the sale of his Tesla shares on Twitter - and receives a mega sum

In order to apparently deal with his assets as transparently as possible, Elon Musk included the Twitter users in this not inconsiderable decision.

In a post from the beginning of November he wrote: "Lately there has been a lot of talk about unrealized profits as a means of tax avoidance." In order not to have to be accused of not paying taxes, he proposes ten percent of his Tesla shares for sale.

Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock.



Do you support this?

- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2021

In other posts, he promised to stick to the results of the survey.

Incidentally, he doesn't get any salary or bonuses anywhere, so selling shares is the only way he can pay taxes.

Lo and behold: 57.9% of his Twitter followers voted for "Yes".

According to dpa information, Musk has kept his promise and has now sold Tesla shares for a whopping 6.9 billion dollars.

This sum corresponds to only ten percent of its total shares in the electric car manufacturer.

Video: Elon Musk lets Twitter vote on the sale of Tesla shares - stock market value falls

Elon Musk sells parts of his Tesla shares - but not all Twitter users are enthusiastic about his campaign

According to Musk's Twitter poll, Tesla shares have already fallen a bit.

But even some of his followers are not completely enthusiastic about his action.

One user writes that he has two jobs just to be able to support his family.

“It's hard for me to have an opinion on what a billionaire should do.

We live from paycheck to paycheck with little in between for the kids.

Difficult to think about how it is to live, right? ”The American replied to Musk's tweet.

I work 2 jobs just to get by for my family.

Hard for me to have an opinion on what a billionaire should do.

We go paycheck to paycheck and have very little for the kids in between.

Hard to think about living like that, isn't it?

- terrynance124@yahoo.com (@ terrynance124) November 6, 2021

Other users simply mean that the Tesla boss would only harm himself and his shares with such a survey.

In addition, it is about "a lot of money".

“Just pay your taxes,” says one user, visibly annoyed.

And yet - the majority of his followers voted to sell.

(mef)

Source: merkur

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