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Transcript of the segment
What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: CNBC.
Hank LedgerElon Musk says that next year he will give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America, and he calls it the first of many.
Kenji MoonfieldHe posted it on X in response to Anthropic announcing a new Public Benefit Fund.
Kenji MoonfieldSo it started as a flex in the replies, and now it's a national program.
Hank LedgerRoughly seventy-three million Americans are under eighteen.
Hank LedgerIBTimes puts the total at about ten point five billion dollars, though Musk and SpaceX haven't confirmed a figure, and he hasn't said who qualifies, how it works, or when it starts.
Dale BearmanSeventy-three million kids, each with one share, and not one of them can log in. This ends with a toddler getting a tax form.
Hank LedgerPlausible.
Dale BearmanPlausible! Highest praise I've ever had.
Kenji MoonfieldBro, a six-year-old in Nebraska just found a two-hundred-million-year-old fossil, and she's still getting gifts from a billionaire before he is.
Kenji MoonfieldKid's already up on followers.
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