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Elon musk just became a trillionaire. Toughts?
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ddplf szmer.info ddplf@szmer.info
Joined: 2024-08-08
#52 · Quote Reply

Fake trillionaire I wonder what you believe a true trillionaire/billionaire/millionaire is. All money is fake, at best they are just paper, that's the whole point of modern economy.

If you being a trillionaire (perhaps even a billionaire were're talking about Musk) relies entirely on overinflated market valuation ans not your actual physical assets value, then you don't have that money.

You do realize that you can become a trillionaire for a day either, don't you? Just create a company, enter the market, emit gazillion actions and convince someone to buy it from you for a couple of bucks. Boom, all your gazillion actions are now worth that money. Try to avoid tax office at this point though.

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AgOkami lemmy.world AgOkami@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-04-15
#53 · Quote Reply

Serious question: What might happen if someone baited him into taking all of that money out and putting it in a money bin?

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Matty Roses lemmy.today mattyroses@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-01-29
#54 · Quote Reply

He needs to be guillotined.

It's time for guillotines, it's time to raise the boards

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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
#55 · Quote Reply

Show it to me? All I see is numbers on a screen. Where's the gold to back it up. No? Then no trillionare.

You know that wine with the gold leaf in it? Geldbrau? I forget the name, the name isn't important for purposes of this conversation. Well I hear tha all he lets his children drink, with the hopes that when he decides to use one as a donor he can say he got the fancy blood eh the gold flake.

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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
#56 · Quote Reply

Here's a "h", it's free.

Use it in your writing and you'll agree, Zagreb ebnen zloty dien.

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plutopos lemmy.zip plutopos@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-23
#57 · (edited) Quote Reply

I know you say that as a slur like he's the worst person in the world. Because we don't yet consider anything worse than nazis/fascists. Like it was our latest media thing of how bad people can be. But I think it's worse than that.

I wonder if the original Nazism and Fascism had a paedophilia scandal as big as Epstein Island

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plutopos lemmy.zip plutopos@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-23
#58 · Quote Reply

And the stupid workings of economic logic will make him a multi-trillionaire soon. The rich get richer is the rule.
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plutopos lemmy.zip plutopos@lemmy.zip
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#59 · Quote Reply

Uncle Scrooge, a caricature or capitalism, was a saint by comparison

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JillyB beehaw.org JillyB@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-06-05
#60 · Quote Reply

Show it to me? All I see is numbers on a screen. Where's the gold to back it up. No? Then no trillionare.

Tbf, gold is mostly only valuable as a social construct like cash or the numbers on the screen.

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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
#61 · Quote Reply

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Yeah but it's nearly all unrealized. When we say it's not real, it's a term of art

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-04
#62 · Quote Reply

Uncle Scrooge, a caricature or capitalism, was a saint by comparison

he did eventually see the error of his ways, billionaires have no 3 ghosts, except epsteins.

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plutopos lemmy.zip plutopos@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-23
#63 · Quote Reply

Yeah but it's nearly all unrealized. When we say it's not real, it's a term of art

I know, I was referring to this line in the original comment:

And the stupid workings of economic logic will make him a trillionaire soon.

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plutopos lemmy.zip plutopos@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-23
#64 · Quote Reply

he did eventually see the error of his ways, billionaires have no 3 ghosts, except epsteins.

I was thinking of the one from Donald Duck but yeah that too

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0x0 lemmy.zip 0x0@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-04-04
#65 · Quote Reply

Tbf, gold is mostly only valuable as a social construct like cash or the numbers on the screen.

As is anything with "value".

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Lucidlethargy sh.itjust.works Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-28
#66 · Quote Reply

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Oh shit the fuck up. It's not capitalism. I live in that society and I'd never do that shit.

Some people are just fucking rotten.

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JillyB beehaw.org JillyB@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-06-05
#67 · Quote Reply

As is anything with "value".

No. Food has inherent value. A tool has inherent value. Kindness has inherent value. Gold has value in its practical applications but it's dollar value is largely because it's pretty and kind of rare.

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Sunflier lemmy.world Sunflier@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-27
#68 · (edited) Quote Reply

We have a trillionaire, but we can't afford to give universal health-insurance? The price of food and gas are skyrocketing too? We hand out tax cuts while there is skyrocketing national debt? The only thing we're missing is a meeting of the Estates General and, then, you'd have the makings of the French Revolution.

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A404 lemmy.dbzer0.com A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#69 · Quote Reply

We have a trillionaire, but we can't afford to give universal health-insurance? The price of food and gas are skyrocketing too? We hand out tax cuts while there is skyrocketing national debt? The only thing we're missing is a meeting of the Estates General and, then, you'd have the makings of the French Revolution.
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punkisundead [they/them] slrpnk.net punkisundead@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-06-25
#70 · Quote Reply

I wonder if the original Nazism and Fascism had a paedophilia scandal as big as Epstein Island

You might be interested in Hitler seemingly only dating underage girls, which later turn up dead:

Was Adolf Hitler a Pedophile? Breaking Down the Nazi Leader’s Perversions

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plutopos lemmy.zip plutopos@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-23
#71 · Quote Reply

You might be interested in Hitler seemingly only dating underage girls, which later turn up dead: Was Adolf Hitler a Pedophile? Breaking Down the Nazi Leader’s Perversions

Damn, I knew Hitler was a pedo, but I didn't know he was THIS bad

Then again, he was literally Hitler

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ordnance_qf_17_pounder reddthat.com ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com
Joined: 2025-06-30
#72 · Quote Reply

Oh shit the fuck up. It's not capitalism. I live in that society and I'd never do that shit. Some people are just fucking rotten.
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Ophrys lemmy.dbzer0.com Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-04-23
#73 · Quote Reply

If we take all of his shit everybody would be rich!

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Lemminary lemmy.world Lemminary@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-13
#74 · (edited) Quote Reply

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I meant to write multi- but the spellcheck was not having it. 🤷‍♂️

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beernacle lemmy.dbzer0.com beernacle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-02-26
#75 · Quote Reply

We're witnessing the rise of corporate nation-hood. Corporations and their governing boards or tyrants are getting bigger than most nation states, and a lot of their workers are more loyal to the company/CEO than their country. They have personal security forces.
We're definitely in a period of increasing acuteness and concentration, not a period of release and expansion. Hopefully the catharsis results in something better than the Pax Americana, which only produced a society of navel-gazing retards.

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Impractical_Island lemmy.world Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-04-15
#76 · Quote Reply

What are you talking about?

The world is an illusion. We don't exist as featherless bipeds on an Earth, we are pockets of consciousness and the Earth is inside each of us.

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kablez lemmy.world kablez@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-02
#77 · Quote Reply

There is a communications delay of 3-24 minutes between Earth and Mars.

I hope he builds a big rocket and fucks off to Mars forever. ASAP.

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davepleasebehave lemmy.world davepleasebehave@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-02
#78 · Quote Reply

We're witnessing the rise of corporate nation-hood. Corporations and their governing boards or tyrants are getting bigger than most nation states, and a lot of their workers are more loyal to the company/CEO than their country. They have personal security forces. We're definitely in a period of increasing acuteness and concentration, not a period of release and expansion. Hopefully the catharsi...

you may come to miss pax Americana

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Sunflier lemmy.world Sunflier@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-27
#79 · Quote Reply

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Okay chatGPT. Twitter is ------->

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A404 lemmy.dbzer0.com A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-04-11
#80 · Quote Reply

We're witnessing the rise of corporate nation-hood. Corporations and their governing boards or tyrants are getting bigger than most nation states, and a lot of their workers are more loyal to the company/CEO than their country. They have personal security forces. We're definitely in a period of increasing acuteness and concentration, not a period of release and expansion. Hopefully the catharsi...

They already have their own private CIA

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Herr_S_aus_H lemmy.zip Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-03
#81 · Quote Reply

The maggots are getting fat. Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died

That is a great song and performance. Thanks for bringing it to my attention 🩷

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RamenJunkie midwest.social RamenJunkie@midwest.social
Joined: 2025-01-24
#82 · Quote Reply

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This is horse shit.

The government is not a business, its not (supposed to be) run like a business. It exists to provide needed things for its people that private entities can't effectively do because those things cannot be effectively profitable for private businesses without causing harm to the life of its people.

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oats piefed.zip oats@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-11-28
#83 · Quote Reply

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Become a trillonaire. Me neither, that shit is disgusting!

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Zink programming.dev Zink@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-08-08
#84 · Quote Reply

I was thinking of the one from Donald Duck but yeah that too

It's probably dependent on your age and location, but a lot of people associate the Donald Duck Uncle Scrooge with the Dickens story thanks to this:

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A404 lemmy.dbzer0.com A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-04-11
#85 · Quote Reply

Him holding that much money will make unsocialized young boys want to branch into STEM. That is an objective effect of him having that much money.

Oh? you mean the same Elon Musk who can't even do something as simple as running a python script?

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Yerbouti sh.itjust.works Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-06-26
#86 · Quote Reply

We are on the verge of a breaking point. In a couple of months, weeks maybe, there will be recursive AI. That means AI will be able to autonomously improve itself. Who knows what will happen next. That's why they are working on alignment for AI (making sure the AI wants what the devs wants), because they fear models based on the sum of human knowledge could "rebel" against capitalist interest in certain scenarios. The world has we know it is almost gone.

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piccolo sh.itjust.works piccolo@sh.itjust.works
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#87 · Quote Reply

Damn, I knew Hitler was a pedo, but I didn't know he was THIS bad Then again, he was literally Hitler

Good thing Hitler killed that guy.

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Impractical_Island lemmy.world Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-04-15
#88 · Quote Reply

Oh? you mean the same Elon Musk who can't even do something as simple as running a python script?

Read my other comments, please. He's as much of a sperg as me (I'm being used by the F- I mean CIA because many reasons) and he is being used to hold all that fake money so unsocialized boys have a figurehead to look up to and will branch into STEM, which is what the actual string-pullers want.

"And Jesus said nothing."

There was a time when I knew the things that only adults know for I had seen death and upon me was the fourquaths of all anathema, that which I learned in Thelema was the doctrine for the soul which bequeaths the starch of the linens one wears into death, as that is where I did find the key to relocate the goods I considered good in me to a new vessel across the fourth dimension, as now I am as q was and is, for star trek is the guise in which I hide behind."

...y'know, nothing. There's a line in the Bible where Jesus says something nearly as worthless and meaningless as this, but he explains it is the authority in which he spoke which made people yield to him. It was the authority from which he spoke that made people listen. He was a confident man. A con man. And that is who runs our country. Con men and women.

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PragmaticOne lemmy.world PragmaticOne@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-04-17
#89 · Quote Reply

Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends.

While I have no doubt that a lot of money would make my life better I know I have genuine friends who I’ve known for more than 30 years.

He has none.

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Logi lemmy.world logi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-08
#90 · Quote Reply

If you being a trillionaire (perhaps even a billionaire were're talking about Musk) relies entirely on overinflated market valuation ans not your actual physical assets value, then you don't have that money. You do realize that you can become a trillionaire for a day either, don't you? Just create a company, enter the market, emit gazillion actions and convince someone to buy it from you for a ...

emit gazillion actions

Where emitting "actions" is German(?) for issuing stocks.

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IPeaceInYourFace lemmy.world IPeaceInYourFace@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-06-13
#91 · Quote Reply

Honestly, I don't think it matters much. America is just printing money for the fun of it, so it doesn't really affect us. The money isn't coming from us, it's just endless leverage.

The US is on an inevitable road to hyperinflation so again, it's not really anybody else's problem.

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lightnsfw reddthat.com lightnsfw@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-08-15
#92 · Quote Reply

If we take all of his shit everybody would be rich!

Most of it is made up "value" on the stock market so not really, but that shouldn't stop us from taking all his shit anyway.

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supersquirrel sopuli.xyz supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-12-09
#93 · (edited) Quote Reply

Honestly, I don't think it matters much. America is just printing money for the fun of it, so it doesn't really affect us. The money isn't coming from us, it's just endless leverage. The US is on an inevitable road to hyperinflation so again, it's not really anybody else's problem.

The AI bubble will be allowed to crash after the US stock market/economy embraces AI and swallows the poison pill with otherwise durable financial entities that average americans rely on becoming hopelessly exposed to collapse by those entities having AI investments (i.e. fake money) forcibly integrated with them.

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ddplf szmer.info ddplf@szmer.info
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#94 · Quote Reply

emit gazillion actions Where emitting "actions" is German(?) for issuing stocks.

Yeah, sorry about those false friends

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#95 · Quote Reply

Toughts

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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#96 · Quote Reply

Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends. While I have no doubt that a lot of money would make my life better I know I have genuine friends who I’ve known for more than 30 years. He has none.

Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends.

He's absolutely got friends. They're fucking awful people. But they're in position to catapult him into the stratosphere.

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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#97 · Quote Reply

They already have their own private CIA

That's just the CIA

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NotMyOldRedditName lemmy.world NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-24
#98 · (edited) Quote Reply

This is horse shit. The government is not a business, its not (supposed to be) run like a business. It exists to provide needed things for its people that private entities can't effectively do because those things cannot be effectively profitable for private businesses without causing harm to the life of its people.

Whatever you replied to is deleted, but i hate when a government says xyz program wasn't profitable. Like fuck profit, was it working? Did it help the community? You dont need to make a profit on everything, but it should be an ultimate good for the country/community which will help it thrive and grow in a effective manner.

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NotMyOldRedditName lemmy.world NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-24
#99 · (edited) Quote Reply

If you being a trillionaire (perhaps even a billionaire were're talking about Musk) relies entirely on overinflated market valuation ans not your actual physical assets value, then you don't have that money. You do realize that you can become a trillionaire for a day either, don't you? Just create a company, enter the market, emit gazillion actions and convince someone to buy it from you for a ...

Create a company with a quadrillion shares. Sell one share to a friend for $1.

edit: And when someone else says bullshit, no one else will buy a share, find someone else to buy 1 share for $1 and prove the valuation lol

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ShaggySnacks lemmy.myserv.one ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
Joined: 2023-08-17
#100 · Quote Reply

There is a communications delay of 3-24 minutes between Earth and Mars. I hope he builds a big rocket and fucks off to Mars forever. ASAP.

Or, the working class builds the rocket and “accidentally” shoots it deep into space.

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PragmaticOne lemmy.world PragmaticOne@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-04-17
#101 · Quote Reply

Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends. He's absolutely got friends. They're fucking awful people. But they're in position to catapult him into the stratosphere.

You missed the bit where I mentioned ‘genuine’ friends. He has mutual sycophancy relationships.

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