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...you do realize that pensions and 401K's are what companies replaced actually paying their retired workers a living wage with so that they both didn't have to pay retirees and to forcibly inflate their own wealth with the wages of their workers, right?
If you work for a big enough company that they provide either of those two, a certain percentage of what you make every week is taken by the company and put into the stock market via index funds (like the NASDAQ, which nows invests your money into SpaceX) and sometimes their own stock without you ever having any say in the matter. It's not "excess", it's wage theft.
If you're investing in SpaceX directly, that's one thing and you deserve what you're going to get just like the people buying Teslas. But there's very little difference between this and billionaire bailouts on your tax dollars.