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[-] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 133 points 1 month ago

Nothing. If you were born in 1AD and earned 1,000,000 every single day without spending a single penny you still would not be a trillionaire today. He will never spend that wealth , he will use that money to get loans that he does not owe taxes on, using that money to acquire even more capital. He has stated his goal is 10 trillion. At no point along the way will he use his wealth or influence to directly improve any common person's life. He is a cancer on our planet, on our economy, and on our civilization.

[-] wetsoggybread@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Its only been 738,715 days since 1/1/0001 so this checks

[-] VonReposti@feddit.dk 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My calculations make it 739,802

Baseline: 2025 * 365 = 739,125

Leap years: Floor(2025 / 4) = 506 - floor(2025 / 100) = 486 + floor(2025 / 400) = 491 (every 4th year except every 100th year with the exception of every 400th year)

1st of Jan 2026 to 5th of July 2026: 186

Total: 739,125 + 491 + 186 = 739,802

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

I hate that we've had to change this calculation from a billionaire to a trillionaire. Both are fucking disgusting numbers.

Also, I swear to God if anyone mentions compound interest I'm gonna strap you to one of Elon's exploding rockets.

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 48 points 1 month ago

He's going to spend it paying top esports players to play games pretending to be him.
Elon is finally going to be the champion in all videogames.

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

No, I am the video game boy! I'm the one who wins!

[-] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Mare, just let Elon pay for you - you have the game, you have the money and you have the fun. Elon gets the “honour”, but nobody will ever believe him anyway.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Now what?" Is apparently helping to turn the United States in to Nazi Germany for "teh lolz"

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

He's just that quirky. Haha.

[-] Raccoon_Rick@altgag.net 22 points 1 month ago

No amount of money in the world will make him a better PoE2 player

[-] JustDorky@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Hey, Elon Musk could be in this thread, reading your comments, sobbing like a thing that sobs a lot. Why isn't this bolded.

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[-] cosmos8188@leminal.space 5 points 1 month ago

Kids these days and their Power over Ethernet.

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[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago

Now he accumulates more wealth, there is no end to capitalist accumulation.

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[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago

He's a parasite, he will continue to feed on us until nothing is left. Maybe kill some more kids for fun because it's the only way he feels anything.

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He is definitely not the first trillionair or the richest man. he is the first publicly recorded trillionair / richest man. Most keep the vast majority they have secret as fuck.

Most of that money is in Tesla stock so not much can be done with it. Maybe take out 10% to 30% of its value as a loan from banks with the stock as collateral then mostly buy some shit that will ideally appreciate in value. It's not liquid wealth so there isn't much you can do with it. $1B liquid would be far more valuable than $1T in stock evaluations.

[-] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 month ago

Yep. Musk might be rich but he's not as influential as he tries to be. He's actually kind of pathetic in that respect, gets eaten up by the media and looks like a complete tool.

He tried so hard to be in the neo Nazi inner circle but he's just a rich wannabe in every fucking regard.

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Kinda unfortunate honestly. If he just chilled without getting into politics and just worked on electric cars, boring machines, battery factories, rockets, and satellite internet probably would be a much more beloved figure. The whole twitter and political involvement / rigging is definitely a downhill move.

[-] rafoix@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

He got into politics because he saw the balance sheets at the companies he’s running.

His businesses desperately needed government backing and he saw an opportunity to buy himself into the most corrupt administration ever.

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Probably accurate although the demand for electric vehicles and hybrids isn't going anywhere and most definitely the demand for batteries isn't going anywhere. Cheap boring and rockets are definitely more niche. Low earth orbit satellite internet has been massive in less developed countries with underdeveloped infrastructure. Maybe if we had something super valuable to mine on the moon or on an asteroid we lassoed into orbit. In short probably could have played the field like most tech companies do and been fine. Check out all the AI companies not going full alt right yet doing alright with massive operating costs to revenue.

[-] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

It's like asking a hoarder what they plan to do with all of those .

It's a mental illness but instead of recognizing it as such, calling it out and getting them treatment, society celebrates them and says they are doing everything that everybody else should strive for.

[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Umm actually, people keep saying he's a trillionaire, that's not technically true.

He wasn't even if SpaceX was at its peak valuation. It was unrealized, floating on an actual liquidity of like 100 billion.

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Paper wealth yes, but he can still spend $250m on an election like its couch shrapnel.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Elon: “More.”

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Make everyone else as misrable as him it appears.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He's going to use it for political influence to further his fucked-up Nazi ideals.

And, of course, get more money. It's never enough with these fuckers. They have a version of hoarding disorder. It's always on to the next grift, more money, more money, more money, more money, number must go up!

Until he's the only free person in the world and absolutely everyone else is either dead or a slave owned by him, he's not done.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Dog catches car.

Is dissapointed.

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Imagine having all that and still being a worthless gross PoS. Lol I would be the worst philanthropist you ever seen--- meaning I'd be giving money to good stuff like food and climate and eduction while simultaneously making life a living hell for anyone who votes against that stuff. I'm talking hiring people to nonstop hate on those types till they quit social media. Give me your money so I can buy the US Senate; we getting shit won.

[-] Xatolos@reddthat.com 7 points 4 weeks ago

If I remember right, Musk made a comment on this that was around "Once you get enough money, you stop seeing it as money and more like a high score."

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, a lot of rich folks said it's been about one-upping each other.

Mark Cuban was asked if he wants to increase his net worth. He responded that he's busy managing the Dallas Maverick's. But that interview seems to insinuate that there is an expectation amongst the wealthy to just keep accumulating wealth. Literally like a cancer that keeps growing.

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[-] jonesey71@lemmus.org 7 points 1 month ago

He should explore the afterlife.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

He'll probably just continue working to diminish democracy across the planet and leave a legacy of hate and ignorance instead of using his wealth to leave a positive legacy, which would be easy as fuck since he'd basically just be paying others to do good things in his name and taking the credit.

Not a smart man.

[-] Airfried@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

He will continue to make our lives harder of course.

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 weeks ago

He'll probably ask to toucuh kids on epstein island again after becoming a trillionare, and he'll probably be rejected again

[-] Dookieman12@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

Ill tell you what he's NOT going to: anything to improve anyone's life but his own.

[-] MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip 4 points 1 month ago

When you reach your peak, it's time to die.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago
[-] hark@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Next up is quadrillionaire, of course!

[-] plyth@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

At least he is saying that he wants humanity to become a two planet civilisation.

[-] pedrobear@altgag.net 3 points 1 month ago

My only doubt about this is: are people calling him a trillionaire USA style? I mean, they normally don't use milliards. They just jump from millions to billions. So it would make him a billionaire to all of us more "civilized" people, wouldn't it?

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

This is not a simple US vs rest of the world distinction. Long scale and short scale are both used in multiple countries and multiple languages. My own country uses short scale but with billion replaced by milliard so it goes miljon, miljard, triljon, kvadriljon. Then India has lakh (1,00,000) and crore (1,00,00,000). No, the two zeroes between commas weren't a mistake.

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[-] brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

At these numbers it becomes meaningless, like infinity+1. All we know is that he can get whatever he wants.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Don't you see? if he has enough money then Grimes will love him again! It's not pathetic, you're pathetic!

[-] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Downvoter doesn't get sarcasm

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