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  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Elon is a true innovator. Never has someone come up with so many reasons to get punched in the face.

  • HarryLime [any]
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    4 years ago

    Tesla doesn't even make 500k cars a year yet.

    Fucking Honda sells about five million cars per year.

      • HarryLime [any]
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        4 years ago

        What's the basis for assuming that Tesla in particular will dominate the electric car market? Much more established companies are developing electric vehicles.

          • JuneFall [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Exactly.

            Would you have bought Google stock? Or would you have bought stock of one of the other 20 search engines? Of which 14 were reasonable good and a handful destined to be in the group that depending on market effects would dominate the field for years to come.

    • Mouhamed_McYggdrasil [they/them,any]
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      4 years ago

      Its literally from the stock market equivalent of when the Powerball jackpot gets really big, and a whole bunch of people from out of state start buying it so it hits over a billion.

      • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah. Bezos's wealth at least mostly represents real capital (i.e. the world's largest storefront, nationwide logistics, the largest cloud host, etc). Musk's "wealth" is pure speculation with just a smidge of actual capital.

    • Shylo
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      1 year ago

      deleted by creator

    • Torenico [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      He's too busy using his tremendous brain power designing and imagining the Martian colony he's going to build using slave labour, designing by himself all the rockets he's going to use (he alone) to explore the universe and in his spare time he's also designing new and less more powerful electric cars. He's a brilliant mind, the most intelligent man in the history of this world, he knows about everything, especially about pandemics.

  • duck [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Less than 6 months ago he had 85 billion jesus christ https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-elon-musk-net-worth-2017-10?r=US&IR=T edit: the day before that he had 77 so why am I surprised

  • Goatfucker99 [fae/faer]
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    4 years ago

    Tread on me Daddy Elon. Drive over me with one of your amazing cars :panting:

  • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    "Please Elon, stop wearing boots, just put your feet directly into my mouth and wear me as boots instead"

  • DasRav [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    If this continues, people might cotton on to the fact that money has no intrinsic meaning any more. I can't wait.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      i think everyone's well aware of this. and yet we keep using money.

      • DasRav [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        We are. Most people don't think about it. Society conditions people to not think about it.

        • Funicio [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It's really weird. Yesterday I was talking with a friend who is generally on board with all my views on economy, but when I said that they should have closed down the economy and froze rent for COVID, they said that's unrealistic because money still had to be generated. I told them that money is fake and the economy is built on speculation anyway, but they kept insisting that they understood what I was saying yet still thought it would be impossible to suspend the economy. :bruh: if money is fake what could possibly stop you from just giving everyone a fat check monthly? They already agree that it's all made up.

  • Torenico [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    All the money in the world can't save his minecraft neck from the mighty minecraft guillotine.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    love how our society rewards the stupidest people with billions of dollars