• Stern
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    Case study in money not buying happiness. Richest man in the world by a wide margin. CONSTANTLY whining and crying about something.

    If I had even a billion dollars y’all would never catch my ass on social media on in the public eye at all.

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      012 days ago

      If I got a billion dollars I would disappear so thoroughly people would think I’m dead.

      Life is short as fuck. But getting all the money you need to live a happy, healthy, long life is as good as it can possibly get on earth. You did it, you won. You can either use it to make people happy or you can just disappear and try to enjoy the brief time you have left.

      I don’t get the motivation, desire and energy to do these massive public campaigns that focus the entire world’s population on you every single day. It doesn’t help anything or anyone and just causes stress. What is the purpose? It has to be some kind of delusion or mania, something gone wrong.

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        He didn’t just get a billion dollars though, its just unrealized gains in stocks, and those stocks represent his influence/control in the company.

        If you helped build a company, and were passionate about it, you’d give that all up? If your vision was to build XYZ and you gave up those shares and you knew XYZ wouldn’t happen anymore, would you give that all up?

        He DID get 300 million dollars from PayPal, and he decided to fund Tesla and build SpaceX and almost lost it all. Was it wrong of him to use all his money to try and build something? (He actually didn’t want to build SpaceX but no one wanted to do the inspiration project sending a plant or something to Mars he wanted to do)

        We need a way to separate the stock value/holdings from company ownership/influence when companies get this big.

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    012 days ago

    I’m happy to push anti Elon musk propaganda. I actually don’t, I just do anti trump/Republican propaganda

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    012 days ago

    And yet not once did he apologize for that Nazi salute and explain how horrified he was that he accidentally did it.

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    I mean he’s not wrong about the first part. But as for the second part, the Nazi stuff and lack of anything positive is more cause than effect. Third part depends on the eye of the beholder.

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    012 days ago

    If people were truly trying to destroy his influence, he wouldn’t be around for much longer.

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    Says the one actually doing a whole nazi salute, buying presidency despite not being able to hold office due to nationality, carving up entire programs and departments in a very incompetent way, and attempting to shamelessly buy a seat in the supreme court.

    And that’s not mentioning how I personally believe he may be doing all this due to his God-Iron-Man-Savior complex which makes him believe he’ll be remembered as a modern messiah. Notice how he’s revived his desire to put mankind on Mars, and by next year no less. He knows under current laws he’d at best help pave the way to Mars, but not live to enjoy it himself. “Maybe if I change the whole rulebook - in the end despite the suffering they’ll thank and revere me”, I bet.

    Poor Elon. I bet he’s crying right now for being a misjudged angel, drying his tears in green paper.

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    012 days ago

    He’s so sad, it’s kinda remarkable. He’s like the epitome of a narcissistic billionaire CEO.

    The insecurity is palpable. I sincerely hope this will be remembered and studied.

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    Musk is that kid in middle school who went out of his way to act smug and edgy in a desperate attempt to impress the other kids but it was all so cringey and irritating that it just made everyone hate him, but he was so dysfunctional that all he could do was try even harder to be smug and edgy, which just made the other kids hate him even more, and 'round and 'round it went until finally somebody decked him and then his mom complained to the administration because the other kids were bullying her baby.

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      012 days ago

      You’re make this sound like it’s a metaphor or something…

      But Musk is that kid literally, and last year one of the other billionaires did try to fight him for being unbearable until his mom literally stepped in and helped him back out

      He’s a rich manchild who people put up with when he let them play with his cool toys. Then he went from the weird rich kid to a total asshole the second he thought this was loyalty… Now he’s crying about being bullied because everyone is turning against him, despite continuing to fuck absolutely everyone over

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    012 days ago

    If I were the richest man on earth, I don’t know what kind of person I would be, but I sure as hell wouldn’t be a whiny little fuck

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      And that’s why you’d never be the richest person. Think about the qualities that lead one to become the richest person on earth. Really think about what that title represents. It’s an unfathomable amount of wealth. Any sane, compassionate person would have funneled that into charity work and the well-being of others.

      You see what I’m getting at?

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          012 days ago

          If you’re rich you can both invest, retire, travel, live off dividends AND donate your money and support the well being of others.

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          You can do that with like, 10 million usd or even less (1% yearly interest means 100k usd a year), and still have money left over to donate

          Musk has about 30 000x that

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      Nah, that’s bullshit. You’re no fucking saint. The problem with billionaires is you cant possibly live a normal life once you get there. That kind of power corrupts your thoughts, actions, and importantly the way every single person you ever interact with behaves.

      If you become a billionaire I’m coming for you.