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[Kraz]

Taxation has seen to benefit those making the rules more than those the elect the rule makers.

If corrupted, but if not

 

[AJUMP23]

imagine if Elon built a cool new Pyramid.

 

[Aces High]

Tesla drivers are up there with BMW and Audi drivers for being absolute wankers here in the UK. And Teslas in particular are too wide for our country roads.

My coworker drives a Tesla.

He parks in front of the office building and activates the fart mode everytime someone goes by.

He's on psycho meds.

 

[Kraz]

imagine if Elon built a cool new Pyramid.

Ozymandias.

 

[AJUMP23]

Ozymandias.

Not that cool.

 

[Punished Miku]

imagine if Elon built a cool new Pyramid.

Imagine his kids running it. Pharoah X-AE^7th Power. Praise the Old Blood.

 

[Kraz]

Not that cool.

Moses didn't think so either.

 

[AJUMP23]

Moses didn't think so either.

Moses saw those things and left. came back at 80 and said Let my people go.

 

[Kraz]

Moses saw those things and left. came back at 80 and said Let my people go.

And then Ancient Egypt fell. But there were other factors, like climate change, internal politics and isolation.

 

[AJUMP23]

And then Ancient Egypt fell. But there were other factors, like climate change, internal politics and isolation.

they were aNILElated.

 

[Kraz]

they were aNILElated.

DESERTed

 

[AJUMP23]

DESERTed

Mummified.

 

[Kraz]

Mummified.

Glorified
..the lone and level sands stretching far away.

 

[AJUMP23]

Glorified
..the lone and level sands stretching far away.

Imhosteppin out

 

[Kraz]

Imhosteppin out

PtoleMEin.

 

[AJUMP23]

PtoleMEin.

Greeking me out.

 

[Kraz]

Greeking me out.

Rome if you want to. Rome around the world.

 

[AJUMP23]

Rome if you want to. Rome around the world.

Caesar and Desist

 

[Kraz]

Caesar and Desist

Christ.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[AJUMP23]

Christ.

To seek and save that whish is lost.

 

[Aces High]

He should become a streamer.

 

[Kraz]

He should become a streamer.

He's earned it.

 

[Punished Miku]

The 2nd Gilded Age
2020 - Forever

 

[AJUMP23]

He should become a streamer.

HE streams diablo on Twitter.

 

[Aces High]

HE streams diablo on Twitter.

Seriously?

 

[AJUMP23]

Seriously?

Yes, I have seen it come across my feed sometimes.

 

[Solarstrike]

Humanity isn't going anywhere near Mars or any other planet for a while yet. A lot of things still need to be done. Sooner or later he's going to have to realize some funds would be best spent for other important ventures here and now while the tides are relatively low..

 

[Aces High]

Humanity isn't going anywhere near Mars or any other planet for a long time yet. Sooner or later he's going to have to realize his money would be best spent for other more important ventures now while the tides are relatively low..

His kids gonna be gazillionaires with asteroid mining, tho.

 

[balls of snow]

I still think it's hilarious that these wealthiest person lists only include people with publicly visible wealth, such as equity in companies they founded

Meanwhile estimates of the wealth of the Saudi royal family top $1 trillion but it's not in the media's agenda to ever report that

Of course, heard Putin before the war is the richest man alive.

 

[Solarstrike]

His kids gonna be gazillionaires with asteroid mining, tho.

Edited my post for clarity. For sure and that said, good on him! I think though you would need interstellar comms relays up for deep space mining? Unless quantum computing/telecommunication can handle it all, smh. Would be cool to be able to log in from here on Earth and mine some quadrant of an asteroid. The pay would probably be decent

 

[ReBurn]

Well done Elon

How do you even manage that never mind spend it

I imagine someone else manages it. He doesn't spend it because it's mostly equity and not cash.

 

[Polygonal_Sprite]

But just think about how much richer he could be if he was smart like the average GAFer and knew how to run Twitter!

It would be funny if someone showed him the story of this and the purple site so he decided to buy it then close it while investing into this site and turning evillore into scrooge mcduck in the process. They’d be big mad.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

That is very cool and all

But I am asking how do you personally manage that level of wealth. You would need a tree structure of financial managers ?

It is not as though you phone you local branch to check how the interest on the capital is doing

Guy like that has entire office of people who manage his wealth

 

[IDKFA]

There seems to be some confusion in this thread and online. Musk doesn't have this money in his bank. He can't spend 400bn. He is assist rich, not 400bn cash rich. Massive difference.

 

[dave_d]

There seems to be some confusion in this thread and online. Musk doesn't have this money in his bank. He can't spend 400bn. He is assist rich, not 400bn cash rich. Massive difference.

Way too many people everywhere really think he has a money bin that swims around like Scrooge McDuck don't they?

 

[poppabk]

I get what you're saying, but have you seen how the government "works"? Look at NASA. One dude with a lot of money has a lot less bureaucracy to deal with and a lot less things standing in the way of actually getting something out the door. I'd like to see some of these things happen before I die.

He has mor3 than 15 years worth of NASA's budget in personal wealth.

 

[Pejo]

He has mor3 than 15 years worth of NASA's budget in personal wealth.

Agreed, and SpaceX has a list of accomplishments that lines up with that money. That's my point. All the money removes the bureaucracy barrier and gets shit done.

 

[K' Dash]

There are 8 billion people on earth. He could give every person in the world a billion dollars and still have 392 billion left.

 

[XXL]

There are 8 billion people on earth. He could give every person in the world a billion dollars and still have 392 billion left.

 

[TwiztidElf]

I still think it's hilarious that these wealthiest person lists only include people with publicly visible wealth, such as equity in companies they founded

Meanwhile estimates of the wealth of the Saudi royal family top $1 trillion but it's not in the media's agenda to ever report that

And the two R families. And these are just the ones we know of.
Morpheus was wrong. Most people will never be ready to be unplugged.

 

[Sybrix]

Elon Musk in media appears as this solo guy.

A $400 Billion fortune, does he have a town of people working for him just managing that money?

 

[BWJinxing]

If I had that cash, I'd be working on gene splicing, make furries real damn it.

... space exploration too. Just one seems more practical in a lifetime

 

[Trogdor1123]

If I had that cash, I'd be working on gene splicing, make furries real damn it.

... space exploration too. Just one seems more practical in a lifetime

 

[SF Kosmo]

It's a colossal systemic failure than anyone could be worth this much.

 

[Trogdor1123]

It's a colossal systemic failure than anyone could be worth this much.

How so?

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Elon Musk in media appears as this solo guy.

A $400 Billion fortune, does he have a town of people working for him just managing that money?

If I had that cash, I'd be working on gene splicing, make furries real damn it.

... space exploration too. Just one seems more practical in a lifetime

It's a colossal systemic failure than anyone could be worth this much.

Net worth is a bit of a theoretical exercise.

He can't sell all his stock because it would crash the market, so it is somewhat "stuck" as an illiquid asset. Even if he could sell, the tax bill would be the biggest in the history of the world, so it wouldn't be worth doing.

Not to mention its all tied up in a semi-meme company that is not essential to the military, or really the overall economy, so it can be taken away with relative ease.

 

[thefool]

It's a colossal systemic failure than anyone could be worth this much.

This is a colossal success by Musk. The colossal systemic failure is the debt countries have trapped themselves.

A classical case of good vs bad management.

 

[EviLore]

1. Build multiple companies that change the world
2. Hold onto most of your stock
3. “How dare you have such a high net worth! Eat the rich!”

 

[SidViscous]

It's gross, but if he sticks to his guns and invests it into his dreams rather than focusing on ROI, he'll be looked upon fondly by history books. Get us to mars!