• sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    4 days ago

    Elon is like the "real GDP" clownshow of the billionaire world

    Jeff Bezos owns the largest or 2nd largest online marketplace in the world, and is only the 2nd richest man China produces like 100x what the US does, but only has the 2nd highest GDP

    the US is a service economy and has the highest
    Elon produces a few thousand cars that don't work and is the richest man on the planet

    • takeda@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      Elon produces a few thousand cars that don't work and is the richest man on the planet

      Officially yes, in reality putin is the richest man, and he isn't rich from the presidential salary. This is why Elonia got involved in trump's election, because he wants to also get even richer by stealing from the country.

        • takeda@lemm.ee
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          3 days ago

          You can get quite rich by stealing wealth from your country:

          https://fortune.com/article/russian-president-vladimir-putin-net-worth-worlds-richest-people/

          • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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            2 days ago

            The $200 billion figure was estimated by financier Bill Browder who, in a testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017, said that Putin amassed most of his wealth after a Moscow court jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2003 for fraud and tax evasion:

            “After Khodorkovsky’s conviction, the other oligarchs went to Putin and asked him what they needed to do to avoid sitting in the same cage as Khodorkovsky. From what followed, it appeared that Putin’s answer was, “50%” He wasn’t saying 50% for the Russian government or the presidential administration of Russia, but 50% for Vladimir Putin personally.”

            Following the dead link to its archive, the latest snapshot has nothing about this "50% blackmail" thing. And if you think about it, this whole story makes literally no sense.

            Also, this story is literally the only explanation given in your source of Putin owning $200 billion.

          • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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            3 days ago

            As someone who isn’t the richest man in the world, I can’t read past the headline, but I’m curious if the “experts” have applied this methodology to American leaders and oligarchs

            • takeda@lemm.ee
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              3 days ago

              But what are you arguing now? "Ok he is actually really rich, but now as rich as Elon"?

              Well a lot of Musk's wealth is based on the stock prices which can go up and down and it's inflated. Putin's wealth is more static and grounded in actual prices without market speculations.

                • takeda@lemm.ee
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                  2 days ago

                  What you expect me to provide? You expect official record how much he stole from his own country?

                  Watch Navalny's movie, do you think that was built from presidential salary? No wonder he got him murdered for that movie.

                  • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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                    2 days ago

                    Oh the movie where he calls migrants cockroaches? And yes, I do actually require evidence or proof for claims