The worlds first trillionaire .
The worlds first trillionaire .
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Original Poster:

18,213 posts

62 months

Yesterday (19:13)
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I guess he must be doing some thing right!

Elon Musk.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/czj8dd0kyl7t

Austin Prefect

2,234 posts

18 months

Yesterday (19:27)
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Expect outrage from the usual suspects accusing him of sitting on a huge pile of $100 bills stolen from widows and orphans.

Wacky Racer

41,017 posts

273 months

Yesterday (19:34)
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Money is meaningless to people like him, it's just a number.

Fair play to him though.

crofty1984

17,045 posts

230 months

Yesterday (19:35)
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Thank goodness. The poor love needed more money.

MrBogSmith

5,772 posts

60 months

Yesterday (19:38)
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He's as incredible in some areas as much of a tool he is in others.


clockworks

7,287 posts

171 months

Yesterday (19:44)
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So, if Musk sold everything at current valuation, and could take it all as actual cash, he'd own around 40% of all the US currency.

TGCOTF-dewey

7,592 posts

81 months

Yesterday (19:53)
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Austin Prefect said:
Expect outrage from the usual suspects accusing him of sitting on a huge pile of $100 bills stolen from widows and orphans.
Can we just be outraged at his moronic chainsaw antics which, as just a single example, has led to the resurgence of the screw worm in the US because studies into the sex life flies was deemed to be woke.

He a dangerous narcissist who believes his own myth.

I've no issue with wealth...but I do take great issues with the wealthy having power over governments.

Agent57

2,407 posts

180 months

Yesterday (20:44)
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Only another 2 trillion to go and he can pay off our national debt.

Sheets Tabuer

21,150 posts

241 months

Yesterday (20:46)
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He needs a trillionaires yacht now.

The Rotrex Kid

34,312 posts

186 months

Yesterday (20:48)
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Momento Mori!

He’ll be remembered as the worlds first trillionaire, a genius by some, an absolute psycho by others.

Ridgemont

9,184 posts

157 months

Yesterday (20:49)
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Interesting article on how he is gaming (and not in a good way) the stock market and investment funds.

Ignore the first section about racism (tho Elon Musk is a terrible judge of liking tweets; it’s the second section that is interesting.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/spacex-late-stage-cap...

dukeboy749r

3,408 posts

236 months

Yesterday (21:11)
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I wonder how he will be viewed in 10, 20 30 years.

I think it won't be as favourably as some seem to think he should be now.

BigMon

6,163 posts

155 months

Yesterday (21:16)
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He is, to put it mildly, a rather divisive character.

I have no doubt he is in some ways a genius, but he's also in some ways a massively objectionable full weight walloper.


pheonix478

5,136 posts

64 months

Yesterday (21:21)
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Agent57 said:
Only another 2 trillion to go and he can pay off our national debt.
By the time he wired it over this lot would have spunked another trillion or two.

pheonix478

5,136 posts

64 months

Yesterday (21:27)
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The Rotrex Kid said:
Momento Mori!

He ll be remembered as the worlds first trillionaire, a genius by some, an absolute psycho by others.
I mean, why not both?

The Rotrex Kid

34,312 posts

186 months

Yesterday (21:27)
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Agent57 said:
Only another 2 trillion to go and he can pay off our national debt.
He could just help his mate Donald out and pay off 5% of the US national debt. Hardly seems worth the bother as it’ll just get spunked on an arch or a ballroom or something.

Hippea

3,521 posts

95 months

Yesterday (22:00)
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It’s quite stark how in the past 30 years the rich have got so much richer

ziggy328

1,368 posts

240 months

Yesterday (22:06)
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The gap continues to widen and the social contract gets ever more strained. I’m 56. I hope it doesn’t break in my lifetime as it will be grim.

Digger

16,465 posts

217 months

Yesterday (22:08)
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QUESTION . . .

Not just related to SpaceX but how is an initial share price set ?

The Rotrex Kid

34,312 posts

186 months

Yesterday (22:09)
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Digger said:
QUESTION . . .

Not just related to SpaceX but how is an initial share price set ?
Pretty sure they just make it up.