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Life After Automation

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Taxing all 938 billionaires at 100% wouldn't stop the $40 trillion national debt, says Elon Musk. Bernie Sanders says tax them 5% and send you a check

Taxing all 938 billionaires at 100% wouldn’t stop the $40 trillion national debt, says Elon Musk. Bernie Sanders says taxing them 5% cuts you a check

Despite his $2.6 billion net worth, MrBeast said he’s had to borrow cash and didn’t even have enough money in his bank account to buy McDonald’s

Some successful entrepreneurs sitting atop billion-dollar businesses say they may look rich on paper, but take a peek into their bank accounts, and they’re actually cash poor. Social media mogul Jimmy Donaldson, known to his 514 million YouTube subscribers as MrBeast, claims he’s just as broke as everyone else despite running a $5 billion entertainment empire.

Meet the 18-year-old junk remover who vibe-coded his own pricing calculator and makes up to $15,000 a month

Carter Grandbois was 16 years old, working for a junk-removal operator in Johnstown, Colorado, when he noticed the cash. His boss kept a thick stack of it in the center console of his truck. Grandbois went home and talked to his dad, and within days, they bought a trailer. The first job paid $500 for 30 minutes of work. “That was kind of an eye-opener,” Grandbois, now 18 and working for himself full-time, told Fortune.

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Regarding the Aug. 12 news article “The data center backlash is building, just in time for the midterm elections”:

‘I had no one to bird with who wasn't 20 years older than me’: Meet the Gen Zers who transformed grandma’s hobby into an analog craze

Ian Bell was 15 the first time he went looking for birds in Central Park alone in 2021, waking most mornings before school to walk the park with a pair of binoculars, oftentimes the only teenager doing so.

The CEO of $1.2 billion learning platform Preply says it all started with his online search for an English tutor

Behind the glitz of multimillion-dollar funding rounds that define today’s unicorns are often years of founder sacrifices and barely-there paychecks. Kirill Bigai, the cofounder and CEO of online education marketplace Preply, paid himself virtually nothing for an entire year while getting his now $1.2 billion business off the ground.

OTC Markets CEO: 250 years of market history just collided with a new SEC rule

In 2026, the SEC has moved on two fronts that will define the next chapter of American public markets. On January 28, it confirmed that tokenized securities remain securities. In May, it proposed the most significant overhaul of the registered-offering framework in more than 20 years. Both are part of a story 250 years in the making.

American billionaires are showing off their farmland for elaborate hobbies, but a buying spree among the ultrarich risks pricing farmers out

No one seems to love the great outdoors as much as billionaires do.

Mark Walter’s sports empire offers a glimpse of the money machine behind private credit—and the plumbing keeping it together

Mark Walter’s sports empire made him one of the most recognizable owners in American sports. His financial empire was considerably less visible, even though it was hiding in plain sight. But recent developments now have the business mogul facing scrutiny over the financial machinery behind his sports empire, raising much bigger questions about the entire private credit sector.

SpaceX is hiring in natural gas trading for energy needs

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is hiring a trader to build and lead a natural gas trading team to support the space flight company’s growing fuel and power needs.

Nvidia's AI Chips Are About to Get More Expensive Too.

Chip Race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia Battle It Out for AI Chip Supremacy