Yeap.

Which country did that and has a high birth rate?

I can't figure out how you calculated this at all. It doesn't make sense mathematically.

Oh that's an interesting concept. What we could do is do it every year, put in place a legal system to manage it. Actually we could also recongise that the single figure doesn't suit everyone perfectly and have them make filings if they want to deviate from it. Then we could for want of a better word "return" the money.

No it doesn't rely on VCs knowing anything. Where a billionaire lives has no relation directly to where the VC funds end up. For example, notice how Musk lives in Texas but the first project for Boring company is not in Texas?

Project and company expenditure does not follow the residential address of a billionaire. They follow the movement of individual companies.

I mean that's a great conspiracy, and the RAM industry has known to act as a cartel in the past, but there is literally zero evidence for that right now. By all accounts both from companies, analysists and 3rd party suppliers all RAM producers are producing at full capacity.

The only "control" of supply right now is the choice of whether to invest in more capacity.

In virtually all cases save for a carefully coordinated cartel (for which again, there's zero evidence right now) the math part works out to be "as much as possible" as this maximises profits universally when you don't have a complete monopoly of the industry.

The OP's post only works in conspiracy land.

Except I agree with the AC, and their comment is aligned with mine. Musk's description of FSD as far back as 2015 when they coined the term (a door to door self driving system which would allow you to play on your phone or read a book) would have to meet the regulatory definition of L4 autonomy which FSD isn't certified for.

If your autonomous driving package waits for approval for longer than the of the life of the vehicle and you never get to use it despite paying for it then you don't have an atonomous driving package available.

That's all there is to it. My argument isn't technical. Musk took money from people as far back as 2015 saying something will be available in 2017 that will allow them to drive completely inattentive and yet here we are in 2026 and the system still is not on offer.

There's nothing more to it than that. You can think what you want of the technical capabilities of FSD (Supervised), or the regulation process (of which the USA is laughably weak), but the reality it is still not what has been promised literally every year for over a decade.

Oh right actually I agree with you. Given the current state of laws in the USA it's virtually impossible not to break one so really everyone is a criminal. On that basis I'm sure the police are too. You're probably a criminal right now, did you leave your bin out a bit too long?

The premise of the problem isn't the cost of the semi it's the lack of charging. There's currently only a few MCS chargers available. It's a bit like the debate of an electric car 15 years ago, ... and people are still bitching about charging consumer EVs today.

That sounds great, did they also budget for a third of the targeted billionaires leaving the state to avoid the 5% wealth tax? I think not - CA thinks it's so special they can try and seize 5% of billionaires wealth and they'll stick around! LOL, other states have sunshine, and beaches, and lower property/income taxes...

The 5% tax is a wealth tax.

The wealth tax is paid by individuals that reside in the state.

When the individual moves out of state, like to Florida as a Google founder did, they are no longer a resident of CA.

Being a resident of FL, they do not owe CA the 5% wealth tax.

The billion dollar company (like Google) may stay in CA, but the state can't collect the wealth tax from the billion dollar corporation.

The amount of Venture Capital flowing into a state is not proof that billionaires aren't leaving the state. One has nothing to do with the other.

You really think AI companies can't setup elsewhere? Somehow we are building AI datacenters all across the country, do you really think the professionals in the field HAVE TO STAY in SF to access their datacenter in Ohio or Virginia? Really?