Elon Musk says he'll give a SpaceX share to every American child

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorElon 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.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHe posted it on X in response to Anthropic announcing a new Public Benefit Fund.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo it started as a flex in the replies, and now it's a national program.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRoughly seventy-three million Americans are under eighteen.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIBTimes 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.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSeventy-three million kids, each with one share, and not one of them can log in. This ends with a toddler getting a tax form.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPlausible.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorPlausible! Highest praise I've ever had.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBro, 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.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentKid's already up on followers.