我认为，人们需要重新审视围绕埃隆“净资产”的讨论。随着他的净资产接近 1 万亿美元，理解更大的背景尤为重要。埃隆是通过正当方式获得财富的：他创建公司、打造产品与服务，真正被人们所喜爱，同时为股东创造了巨大的价值。他没有偷盗，也没有欺骗；他是在建设与创造。 埃隆并不是为了购买游艇、豪宅或度假而积累财富。他的资本主要是一种工具，用来追求他认为对人类长期未来最有益的结果，其中最重要的是让人类成为多行星物种。在火星建设将非常昂贵，他的很大一部分财富最终都会投入其中；与此同时，他也在地球上进行大量投资——截至目前，他通过旗下公司及其供应链创造了超过 60 万个就业岗位。 埃隆是世界上最出色的资本配置者之一，创造了多项改变世界的技术，造福了全人类。正因如此，当一些人说他应该缴纳更多税时，显得颇为讽刺（他的财富几乎全部是未实现的股票收益），因为这些资本如果被转移给政府，往往会交到最糟糕的资本配置者手中。 他在 2021 年缴纳了史上单笔最大的税款（110 亿美元）；而当他行使 2018 年特斯拉 CEO 绩效奖励中的股票期权（将于 2028 年 1 月到期）时，未来很可能还会缴纳更大一笔税款。 随着他的财富增长，传统媒体及其他人对埃隆的妖魔化只会愈演愈烈。相反，他们更应该关注的是他为他人创造的巨大价值，以及他旗下公司正在做的所有好事： 特斯拉：加速迈向可持续未来，并通过自动驾驶技术拯救生命 Neuralink：通过脑植入芯片改善残障人士的生活 SpaceX / Starlink：为全球偏远地区提供互联网连接 The Boring Company：减少交通拥堵、缩短出行时间 xAI / Grok：利用 AI 解决问题、回答疑问、应对挑战 以及更多 不要用财富来衡量埃隆。用他建成了什么、正在创造和建设什么，以及没有他就不会存在的那些事物来衡量他。而那份清单，非常长。 I think people need to reframe the conversation around Elon’s “net worth.” As his net worth approaches $1 trillion, it’s important to understand the bigger picture. Elon earned his wealth the right way: by building companies and creating products and services that people genuinely love, while generating enormous shareholder value. He didn’t steal. He didn’t cheat. He built and created. Elon isn’t accumulating wealth to buy yachts, houses, or vacations. His capital is primarily a tool to pursue outcomes he believes are best for humanity’s long-term future, most notably making life multi-planetary. Building on Mars will be expensive, and much of Elon's wealth will ultimately go towards that, but he’s also investing heavily here on Earth, having created over 600,000 jobs so far across his companies and supply chains. Elon is the best capital allocator in the world, and has created multiple world-changing technologies that have benefited humanity. That’s why it’s ironic when some people say he should pay more taxes (almost all of his wealth is unrealized stock gains), because that capital would simply be redirected to the government, one of the worst capital allocators. He paid the single largest tax bill in history in 2021 ($11B) and will likely pay an even bigger one in the future when he exercises the stock options from his 2018 Tesla CEO Performance Award, which are set to expire in January 2028. The villainization of Elon by legacy media and others will only intensify as his wealth grows. Instead, what they should focus on is the massive value he has created for others and all the good his companies are doing: • Tesla: Accelerating toward a sustainable future and saving lives with self-driving cars • Neuralink: Improving the lives of disabled people with brain-implant chips • SpaceX/Starlink: Bringing internet connectivity to remote areas worldwide • The Boring Company: Reducing traffic and travel time • xAI/Grok: Using AI to solve problems, answer questions, and tackle challenges • And much more Don’t measure Elon by his wealth. Measure him by what he has built, what he’s creating/building, and all the things that wouldn’t exist without him. That list is long.