Mark Cuban fires back at 'eat the rich' crowd — says 'blood-sucking businesspeople' are a 'small minority'

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has had capable of anti-wealthy business-owner bashing, and he's taking his lawsuit to societal media.

"What astir each the entrepreneurs that risked everything and failed?" Cuban stated successful a June 20 X station (1). "Or the ones that are grinding it out, trying to physique a business? You know, the ones that make much than 60 pct of the caller jobs successful this country. The much palmy they are, the much you hatred them? . . . You don't attraction if they spell broke?"

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Cuban was responding to critiques from politicians and societal media mavens implicit the caller Elon Musk/SpaceX 'trillionaire versus the economically downtrodden' debate. After Musk became the world's archetypal trillionaire successful June 2026, politicians argued that the contented wasn't conscionable wealthiness but power.

"Our ideology cannot past erstwhile 1 man, who contributed $290 cardinal to get Trump elected, becomes $700 cardinal richer since Trump's election," Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (D) said (2).

Sanders was hardly alone.

"Elon Musk conscionable became the world's archetypal trillionaire," noted Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (D). (3) "The emblematic American household would person to enactment much than 11 MILLION years to marque Elon Musk's level of wealth. We request a wealthiness tax."

Noting that 10% of radical successful the U.S. are entrepreneurs, Cuban said determination are plentifulness of discussions to beryllium had astir income inequality and helping radical who are struggling economically, but blaming concern owners for the contented is implicit the top.

"I've talked astir a batch of them successful my timeline," helium said successful his X post. "But successful reality, saying 'Eat the rich' volition extremity up helping nary 1 but possibly politicians trying to rise money. And astir apt wounded those successful need, arsenic much wealth is spent playing authorities than helping."

More so, ideology is "not a strategy," Cuban continued. "Nor is it a program that has lasting interaction connected radical who request help. I'm not a believer successful trickle down. It's a joke. I americium a believer successful trickle up."

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Business experts accidental Cuban has a point. . . To a constituent