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[–] 104 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

On Elon Musk, it's funny because he never put a profit, like tesla isn't the biggest, X is draining money, his robotics shits are just that: shit, only spacex is relatively successfull, but it's not on the same level of half trillion dollars.

There isn't much that he's done, all of his companies are making less profits (or losing more money if i'm being correct), he is just a jake paul that fakes being a fake intelligent person.

Edit: Deleted my edit, i'm drunk

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  • [–] 40 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, its ironic. The richest man in the world doesn't have a single* truly profit-making venture under him.

    How the bubble around him hasn't burst yet I don't know, but it would certainly be a feast for sore eyes.

    *Edit: Forgot about SpaceX, which actually has made itself a decent chunk of money - about $15.5 billion in 2025 - but I doubt that alone is capable of propping up his nearly $500 billion personal valuation.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    SpaceX has been phenomenally successful. I don't think he can be attributed to much of that success. The Falcon 9 handled 95% of launches in 2024. SpaceX has went from non existant to a near monopoly in 23 years while competing against some of the most powerfully connected companies in the world.

    I'm not a SpaceX fanboy (I'm a space fanboy). They have done a lot of good for the space industry, while also causing a lot of harm to the scientific space community (earth based observations). I just don't think you can make an argument that SpaceX is not a successful company.

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    [–] 79 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Three bullets could do so much for this country

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  • [+] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Let's keep 'replacing' them until the replacements end

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  • [–] 72 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    The weird thing is that these people don't think they're rich enough and want to extract more money from government and the people, and they simultaneously think that the government gives too much money to poor people.

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    [–] 43 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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    The french really did have a solid way of reminding the upper crust that they were vastly outnumbered by the people they were standing upon...

    Remind me. Why are the worlds billionaires all building bunkers? A true mystery.

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  • [–] 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    Honestly stop being poor dudes, just ask your father for some millions to get started and start exploiting people, easy

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    [–] 33 points 8 months ago

    Any place that allows this to happen is a bad place.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago

    Eat the rich.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago

    People really should pay their bottoms more.

    (sorry)

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago

    Damn, when I read this statistic the other day I took it as 'the bottom half has less then the 3 richest persons', but in fact, it is 'three people each have more than the bottom half' holy shit.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago

    As per, the only thing that trickles down is shit, vomit and piss.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    USA at again, isn't it? The country with trillion debt, that's about to blow.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago*

    It has always been a thing with America. The debt has been astronomical for many decades. I know its easy to believe its something new, but it really isnt. My entire life, America has been like this.

    Im not too interested in the why, but I have glanced articles explaining why this is actually ok because of their position in the world, the world currency being the dollar, and other factors. Its very boring for me but you can find info about it.

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    [–] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Don't forget that shithead larry Ellison. He's worth 200b right now.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It's hard to believe, but Ellison is worse than Musk. Musk is a lot like Trump, he wants love and respect, even though they are far too psychopathic to really understand what those things are, and they think that having money and acting tough will make people love and respect them.

    Ellison doesn't seem to care about that. He's a mean, cruel person, who seems to enjoy being that way, and like Fred Trump, he raised his son to be as much a psychopath as he is.

    Musk is dangerous, but he is too stupid and impulsive, and it blunts his impact. Ellison is far smarter, and far more effective. He's not quite as rich as the rest, but at a certain level, who can really tell? It's all just wretched excess after about $100 bill anyway. But even so, now that he owns CBS and Paramount, and is trying a poison pill takeover of Warner Discovery, he'll be in the upper reaches very soon, jockeying for position at in the top rankings

    And I doubt he will stop at CBS/ Paramount and Warner. Larry Ellison is going to control a massive amount of the media in the this country, and he is a massive MAGA, of the worst kind. There are supposed to be government controlled limits on media ownership, but all rules are elastic under MAGA, and he'll be allowed to own anything he wants. Don't be surprised if he ends up owning all broadcast TV, and then he controls the narrative for all political campaigns, election results, news programs, debates, etc. No candidate gets promoted on TV unless MAGA allows it.

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    [–] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Every time I see these guys’ faces I cringe so hard. It’s frankly embarrassing working in the tech industry when most people think of them whenever anyone mentions it.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    We already have Musk acting like his own personal country, making personal deals with world leaders that benefit only himself over other nations. Others are probably doing it, too, but we haven't heard about it.

    Now these Sociopathic Oligarchs are heading to trillionaire status, and they WILL be founding their own Corporo-Nations, which will require private armies for security. Eventually, these Corporo-Nations will combine to form their own alliance, combine their armies, and start throwing their weight around militarily, as well as economically.

    This is all just a matter of time, and then we're going to wonder as a planet, Why we didn't stop those guys back when we had a chance?

    I have no doubt at all that ALL of them have violated many laws, in many sectors, to get as rich as they are. Investigate them deeply, prosecute them for their crimes, and confiscate their entire fortunes. If we don't do that, it is absolutely certain that we will come to regret it.

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    [–] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Now, I might be misreading this data, but from what it looks like either one of these billionaires by themselves have more wealth than the bottom 50% of Americans, right?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, this is phrased like those three just slightly edge out the bottom 50, as opposed to each individually owning significantly greater than the bottom 50. I'm going to assume these three own more than the "bottom" like 85%.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Top two are richer than the 3rd + the 50%

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    [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    "own more" is putting it lightly, they literally own 10 times more than bottom 170 mil people combined

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    It works like a piñata - if we beat it open with a club, only then will its contents trickle down.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    money is a meaningless construct. Eat the rich.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    It will trickle down any second now

    No, no. A little while yet.

    They've got to get enough to cover

    https://www.usdebtclock.org/

    first. THEN it'll trickle down. For super super sure.

    Trust them. Maybe they care.

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    [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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    What’s about the other twelve multi-billionaires that are worth more than $85B? Why were they left out?

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    [–] 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    there are way more of us than there are of them.

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    [+] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)
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    [–] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Dragonslayer is an occupation that needs a comeback

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    [–] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    The only way it trickles down is the way Charlie Kirk showed us

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Vote out every single Republican or whatever right-wing/far-right party you have in your country. Shift the Overton window each time a seat gets flipped.

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    [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    478 billion for Musk. Happily he found a way to destroy money as effectively as possible by building the biggest rockets ever and let them explode over and over again.

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