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Two kids talking. "If you had 1 million, would you give me half? Yes. If you had a bicycle, would you let me ride it from time to time? Yes. If you had an apple, would you share it with me? No. But why? Because I do have an apple."

It really is when you're the kind of person who routinely builds multi-billion dollar companies. You're talking about capital for several more moonshots.

So the state of California loaned him money and he hasn't paid it back? Otherwise he doesn't owe anything.

I would think being a billionaire, there isn't significant difference in quality of life living in California vs. Texas either. The "I'm ok paying them what I owe" also overlooks the public spats on Twitter and with re-opening the Fremont factory which got shutdown because of covid.