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Really glad to see Elon Musk getting absolutely fucked. Let's have more of that.
It’s America getting fucked, not him.
Keep in mind he might be working for them doing this on purpose to us.
We just know he doesn’t care about America.
Might? Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years
However, he's obviously destroying the US government and bureaucracy right now, but I don't think he's destroying his own businesses on purpose. He's just dumb.
Let's be clear: he's the one fucking himself
It's a start.
I find it hard to imagine how someone like Musk with infinite tiny-dick energy could fuck anything. Let alone himself.
Even more beautiful.
Good
Thing is, he's not. He can, and has, lose more money than I'll ever see and not have any change in lifestyle.
It simply doesn't effect him. All of his companies could collapse completely tomorrow and he probably wouldn't even notice (financially speaking).
Musk is one of the few billionaire who made his money via meme stock. He is proving to be pretty stupid so it wouldn't surprise me if he lose it all.
Best to think of him as a lottery winner not some capitalists genius. Plenty of examples of them going broke.
He may not notice the financial loss but at the amount of money he's trying to amass money isn't the point. Power and control are the point. If his companies go under he'll loose a lot of power and influence and I'm not sure his ego could handle that. He seems to crave attention of any kind. I'd be happy if he were reduced to a regular very rich guy with nothing of consequence to say anymore.
He's currently an advisor the the United States President and has been given full authority to do "whatever he wants" to all executive branch offices.
lose*
loose is opposite of 'tight'
Since Elons not wrapped too tight, I would have let it slide.
What is his most profitable asset? Tesla stock? Spacex stock? So long as his total assets are worth $4 billion or more, there’s no change. Anything below that and he’ll lose influence due to financial strain. I’m looking forward to it!
Why 4B? Why not 50M? That's way enough for an overtly comfortable lifestyle
Any less and he couldn’t sustainably sway the entirety of the US’s governing structure by dividends alone, with redundancy.
Is there some finance math behind that or something? Sounds like it's a pretty concrete figure when you say it like that, but I'm not financially literate enough to understand
300M to buy a presidency once every four years, leaving him 3.7B to recoup his costs at 8%/year to stay ahead of inflation. If that wouldn’t work out, swap to purchasing the ears of 20% of all US senators.
Though I didn’t realize that senate races average 90M now, so my figures were out of date. I was just winging it with mental math, nothing authoritative.
What part of Musks personality indicates he is this prudent? My guess is he would gamble it on the next idea but the market will turn in him because losing people billions (the only way he ends up with only 4 billion) is unforgivable.
Trump only lost millions and had to turn to the mob. If Musk worked with the mob he'd be at the bottom of a river in a week .
Fair enough, but even if those figures were on the low end, that's devastatingly low for what's at stake
When has a Musk company paid dividends?
Affect and effect are not the same word.
Neat.