

If you’re behind $1000 in taxes for a $250000 house doesn’t mean the government takes your whole house and you get nothing.
They typically sell it at auction and you get the leftovers.
https://www.michigan.gov/taxes/property/forfeiture-foreclosure
If you’ve lived in the house after a lifetime, you’d either have to be extremely behind in taxes, have not maintained the house, or both, for it to be a complete loss.
I don’t think the 4% rule applies the same way when it gets to that point.
His spending affects the market. A “normal” investment assumes they are irrelevant to the market.
I don’t know how this changes things, but having to lean on TSLA stock when he owns so much of it impacts how much TSLA stock is worth.
Again, maybe it really doesn’t matter, but you can’t apply standard economics when the numbers are this big.