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[IlGialloMondadori]

Musk's wealth still has nothing on the bankers in the background

Musk actually does productive things with his time and resources

Removing censorship from twitter is one of the most important things anyone has ever done

Leftists hating Musk should tell you everything you need to know

You've got a JC Denton avatar, bro. JC Denton would fucking hate Elon Musk. And not just because of his outsized control of information and power, but because he's a loser that no one likes.
He's hate him because of his Elden Ring build. Only a moron would have that Elden Ring build.

 

[rkofan87]

However, I'm not sure Musk - or any one person- having this sort of a wealth is a good thing. Yet people who would never see a fraction of his wealth are aggressively clapping his cheeks and saying how happy they are for him.

So while Musk definitely has too much net worth, I dont see much to condemn him other than its seems to be an absorbadent amount for one person

there's nothing wrong with wishing him well on his wealth
the only people hating him for are socialist shitheads

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

there's nothing wrong with wishing him well on his wealth
the only people hating him for are socialist shitheads

 

[Peggies]

To all of you Musk worshippers: read Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death.

 

[IDKFA]

there's nothing wrong with wishing him well on his wealth

It's bit odd, no? I don't understand why you'd nosh him off because he's now a trillionaire.

 

[Unknown?]

To all of you Musk worshippers: read Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death.

Read the Creature from Jekyll Island if you want to understand money.

 

[Peggies]

Read the Creature from Jekyll Island if you want to understand money.

Well, I don't actually. Read The Island of Dr. Moreau if you want to understand Musk's mindset.

 

[pepeno]

Man certainly earned everything himself. I mean anyone after selling his paypall share would just lie on his $120mil till end of his life and would say fuck it. He didn't need to do anything in his life anymore.
Yet that weirdo put those 120mil into space company as complete amateur and electric car company. Both of those ideas at the time were insanely stupid.
Somehow he managed to be uber proficient in both made THE best space company ever and made succesful car company.
And stuff like founding OpenAI, Neuralink, Boring company etc. are his pet projects.

And the weirdest part about it is that this is not his curtain act. SpaceX is about to release starship that will be effectively a raiload to space opening whole new sector of space industries. Tesla is at the cusp of getting AI finally ready to be deployed everywhere, Neuralink is already putting chips that do magic, xAI actually makes money and so on.

I wouldn't be shocked if dude will be worth 20T in 20 years while everyone else is still chasing 1T.

And on top of that he actually makes something worth looking forward to.


Shit if starship goes operational going to space should be as easy as flying a plane, available to common man (starship price per kg is targeting less than $100)

 

[calico]

edit: wrong thread

 

[Major Insano]

85% of spaceX is data centres and AI..

 

[sono]

What is the monthly interest income on a trillion

 

[Unknown?]

Well, I don't actually. Read The Island of Dr. Moreau if you want to understand Musk's mindset.

Well if you don't understand money, you can't complain.

 

[Peggies]

Well if you don't understand money, you can't complain.

That's such a stupid conclusion.

If you don't understand human nature, you will never see the problem with money and along with that power.

 

[Bert Big Balls]

No one individual should have this much money. The amount of shit that could be fixed or improved with this sort of wealth.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

What is the monthly interest income on a trillion

Say you find a bank that does a high yield savings rate of 5% APY, it's $4.17B per month.

1T x .05 / 12

 

[StueyDuck]

No one individual should have this much money. The amount of shit that could be fixed or improved with this sort of wealth.

who manages that wealth when it gets distributed evenly?

The banks? The governments?

the world is just a giant pit of corruption and it's more so worse today with the step into globalization then it was before.

at least Musks wealth you can track, you can follow and they even let you buy a portion of it (in terms of shares in his companies, not his literal net worth).

It's the money we aren't tracking, the money we can't go and follow/track that we should be more worried about.

Remember that Elon's "worth" of a trillion is actually funding peoples salaries and keeping people employed, running businesses etc.

 

[thefool]

He couldn't even understand what Spacex could achieve in the future.

 

[Nocty]

the thread is just full of Musk fart sniffers, I'm out.

 

[Musashipan]

Congratulations to my boy Musk
Lefties are melting down hard, it's beautiful to watch!! He should run for president

 

[Bitstream]

You've got a JC Denton avatar, bro. JC Denton would fucking hate Elon Musk. And not just because of his outsized control of information and power, but because he's a loser that no one likes.
He's hate him because of his Elden Ring build. Only a moron would have that Elden Ring build.

lmao the complete and utter lack of self awareness. Rocking a JC Denton avatar while failing to realize that musk and his cronies are trying to become the Bob Page of the story. Meanwhile, the other Illuminati members laugh while he begs for an invite to pedo island.

 

[Buggy Loop]

I never imagined that billionaires changing the narrative from class war to culture war/political tribalism and media distractions by twisting all social networks would result in so many rich man simps nearly a decade later.

They won, so easily. So easily distracted.

 

[Denton]

You've got a JC Denton avatar, bro. JC Denton would fucking hate Elon Musk. And not just because of his outsized control of information and power, but because he's a loser that no one likes.
He's hate him because of his Elden Ring build. Only a moron would have that Elden Ring build.

Just insults, no arguments. One can dislike Elon for whatever reason while respecting what he achieved.

And the constant rehashing how evil it is that he is "trillionaire" when almost all his "wealth" is actually just shares in the companies he runs is so endlessly dumb. Leftists are braindead.

 

[MarV0]

I never imagined that billionaires changing the narrative from class war to culture war/political tribalism and media distractions by twisting all social networks would result in so many rich man simps nearly a decade later.

They won, so easily. So easily distracted.

Culture wars have been going on for thousands of years compared to class wars that were a very temporary thing. People outside their own group generally don't get along with one another and that will never change.

If you take a quick look at most Western countries financials the top 40% subsidise the living of the rest 60%. A minority of the population working harder and creating wealth is the only reason you have access to the services and quality of life that you take for granted and endlessly complain about.

This unfair arrangement won't last forever. True automation is coming. You will eventually get your socialist enclaves from hell.

 

[moogman]

If you take a quick look at most Western countries financials the top 40% subsidise the living of the rest 60%. A minority of the population working harder and creating wealth is the only reason you have access to the services and quality of life that you take for granted and endlessly complain about.

Yet the top 5% hold over 75% of the wealth globally. It's not going to be easy to do, but there needs to be a rebalancing somewhere down the line. The whole market falls over anyway when fewer people can afford the services.

 

[Dutchy]

Elon liberating twitter (old name for X) has allowed government misinformation to be challenged.

Me going on X:

HEY GUYS, TODAY I'M PROVING THE EARTH IS FLAT BY USING A FLASHLIGHT AND A MONSTER ENERGY CAN

(500K likes, 100k shares, all botted)

 

[thefool]

He couldn't even understand what Spacex could achieve in the future.

This is exactly the sort of person that will hinder tech advancement and negatively impact our society beyond comprehension. Europe is full of these lunatics.

 

[calico]

Me going on X:

HEY GUYS, TODAY I'M PROVING THE EARTH IS FLAT BY USING A FLASHLIGHT AND A MONSTER ENERGY CAN

(500K likes, 100k shares, all botted)

Much better that someone is free to say that and to have it be challenged by others, than to have governments dictate it cannot be said at all.

 

[pepeno]

85% of spaceX is data centres and AI..

One asteroid of platinum and gold is worth anywhere from 50T to 150T of dollars and that's just assuming with current use, not with what it could enable if gold would became as common to use in industry as copper.

You go to such asteroid, do some painting and gas tanks with rocket nozzle and put it on orbit for earth to catch at LEO. Then you mine it at leo and you swim in monney.

 

[Major Insano]

One asteroid of platinum and gold is worth anywhere from 50T to 150T of dollars and that's just assuming with current use, not with what it could enable if gold would became as common to use in industry as copper.

You go to such asteroid, do some painting and gas tanks with rocket nozzle and put it on orbit for earth to catch at LEO. Then you mine it at leo and you swim in monney.

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

Just insults, no arguments. One can dislike Elon for whatever reason while respecting what he achieved.

And the constant rehashing how evil it is that he is "trillionaire" when almost all his "wealth" is actually just shares in the companies he runs is so endlessly dumb. Leftists are braindead.

You're just like Elon. You don't understand cyberpunk fiction at all.

I know it's tied up in shares and running those companies. I'm saying he shouldn't have all that power, because he's a childish clown who wishes people thought he was cool.

 

[Brazen]

Yet the top 5% hold over 75% of the wealth globally. It's not going to be easy to do, but there needs to be a rebalancing somewhere down the line. The whole market falls over anyway when fewer people can afford the services.

Sooner than that. The market falls when most stop believing or have a stake in it.

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

One asteroid of platinum and gold is worth anywhere from 50T to 150T of dollars and that's just assuming with current use, not with what it could enable if gold would became as common to use in industry as copper.

You go to such asteroid, do some painting and gas tanks with rocket nozzle and put it on orbit for earth to catch at LEO. Then you mine it at leo and you swim in monney.

 

[pel1300]

I'm heavily invested in tech including tesla so I like seeing this.

But I'm also very satisfied at how much this upsets the leftists.

lol

 

[Dr.Guru of Peru]

nvm

 

[analog_future]

This simple contextualization always hits me: if you make 100,000 dollars a year, it would take you 10 years to make a million dollars. It would take you 10,000 years to make a billion. It would take you 10 million years to make a trillion.


No living being should have a billion dollars, let alone a trillion.

 

[Wildebeest]

No living being should have a billion dollars, let alone a trillion.

Give me a quadrillion dollars I'll be really responsible with it. You will be shocked and have to admit you are wrong.

 

[Madflavor]

Huh. I guess sperging out and torching people's vehicles didn't really have any effect except making certain people look like adult toddlers.

 

[Trilobit]

This simple contextualization always hits me: if you make 100,000 dollars a year, it would take you 10 years to make a million dollars. It would take you 10,000 years to make a billion. It would take you 10 million years to make a trillion.


No living being should have a billion dollars, let alone a trillion.

So he should simply have stopped working and stopped being successful? I don't understand. Who exactly does it hurt that he has that money? I woke up the day after he had reached a trillion dollars and lo and behold, my life was exactly the same as the day before. Nations around the world handle far bigger amounts. The spending budget for USA is per year 6-7 trillion usd. And you want to put all blame on injustices around the world on one man's shoulders?

 

[StueyDuck]

So he should simply have stopped working and stopped being successful? I don't understand. Who exactly does it hurt that he has that money? I woke up the day after he had reached a trillion dollars and lo and behold, my life was exactly the same as the day before. Nations around the world handle far bigger amounts. The spending budget for USA is per year 6-7 trillion usd. And you want to put all blame on injustices around the world on one man's shoulders?

The dumb-dumb belief is that instead of you earning a trillion dollars, he stole it from you... somehow... thats the part where they struggle to formulate any sort of sense or evidence but by gosh did he definitely steal that money from you and of course from poor people too.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Why are people mad at Musk? do they think he got the cash in a vault? shouldn't they be mad at the system?

Either way, it doesn't matter to us. There are bigger things to worry about.

Imagine if he didn't buy twitter, everything would be left leaning right now.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

So he should simply have stopped working and stopped being successful? I don't understand. Who exactly does it hurt that he has that money? I woke up the day after he had reached a trillion dollars and lo and behold, my life was exactly the same as the day before. Nations around the world handle far bigger amounts. The spending budget for USA is per year 6-7 trillion usd. And you want to put all blame on injustices around the world on one man's shoulders?

They imagine he sits on the wealth and that he could use it at all to help people.

They don't understand that it's his companies that is the wealth.

 

[Mengy]

They imagine he sits on the wealth and that he could use it at all to help people.

They don't understand that it's his companies that is the wealth.

In general, I find most of the hatred for wealthy people is due to a lack of understanding how money actually works in the world. Some of the hatred is due to wealthy people doing or saying bad stuff, but a lot of it is simply ignorance about money and wealth and valuations and how they all work.

Ignorance and jealousy is what most of it seems to be about, in my opinion.

 

[[Sigma]]

Seems like he's played his cards right financially. That's about all the complement I can give him.

 

[rkofan87]

It's bit odd, no? I don't understand why you'd nosh him off because he's now a trillionaire.

wishing the guy well on his wealth is sucking him off??????????????

 

[rkofan87]

To all of you Musk worshippers: read Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death.

Read the Creature from Jekyll Island if you want to understand money.

Well, I don't actually. Read The Island of Dr. Moreau if you want to understand Musk's mindset.

No one individual should have this much money. The amount of shit that could be fixed or improved with this sort of wealth.

the thread is just full of Musk fart sniffers, I'm out.

 

[IDKFA]

wishing the guy well on his wealth is sucking him off??????????????

It's Bizarre parasocial relationship nonsense. Unless you're directly impacted, why would you congratulate Musk? Do the same people glaze Bill Gates or George Soros when their net worths increase?

Really? Being critical of the 1% doesn't make you a socialist.

 

[AJUMP23]

I wonder if he used the Ramsey Envelope system.

 

[SJRB]

Decent counter by Elon but it's absolutely crazy how many (often) mainstream media outlets and prominent politicians are openly advocating for this guy to get killed.

The amount of misery I've seen getting wished upon him is unreal.


Palette cleanser:

 

[SantaC]

Wake me up when SpaceX goes to Mars

 

[Unknown?]

It's Bizarre parasocial relationship nonsense. Unless you're directly impacted, why would you congratulate Musk? Do the same people glaze Bill Gates or George Soros when their net worths increase?


Really? Being critical of the 1% doesn't make you a socialist.

Because there are those who can create currency like a counterfeiter, but legally. I am critical of the 1% for the actions they take just like the other 99%, not because of how much they have made. Criticality based on worth is misdirection, being critical of those who set up a debt based monetary system to rob EVERYONE who cannot counterfeit is of higher importance.

We've been fooled by socialists into allowing the creation of a debt based economy. This means that every dollar that comes into existence is being loaned into existence by the banks/central bank. The banks will then be collecting interest on those loaned dollars either by individuals or by the government but they never create enough dollars to pay that interest. So more debt needs to be created to pay the interest which creates more interest that needs more debt to pay. It's circular, it mathematically cannot last forever, and all of society is thrown into that crisis with bankruptcies and defaults built into the system. Someone will always get the short end of the stick.