SITUATION EXPLAINED: Elon Musk just pledged a SpaceX share to every kid in America, a giveaway worth over $10 billion.
• He says this will be "the first of many"
• At about $146 a share for roughly 72M kids, that’s about $10.5B, 1.5% of his roughly 4.8B SpaceX shares
• That’s nearly double Michael Dell’s record $6.25B gift to Trump Accounts, the government-seeded investment accounts for kids
• He hasn’t said who counts as a kid, whether noncitizens qualify, or how the shares get delivered
• Much of the negativity around AI comes from people owning none of it, since top labs like OpenAI and Anthropic aren’t public
• OpenAI and Google DeepMind could be next with their own wealth-sharing plans
@sophiadew: "It’s not just about the money. You could argue, I don’t know, 150 bucks to every kid won’t do that much. It’s about ownership. When you have a stake in America, in innovation, in companies that are happening here, you start to see the world differently."