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$500m to Elon is like $500 to the average American
Not so much at the moment.
He borrowed 44 bn to buy Twitter and has a 1.5 bn payment coming up.
He is of course more liquid than any of us, but the fact that he keeps not paying various bills seems to indicate that he's having cash flow problems and is having to scrounge for his loan payment.
This is just one of many multi million dollar payments that musk and/or Twitter are fighting.
Eh. He can sell his tesla stock anytime he wants cash, he just would have to pay taxes on it and instead would likely borrow against it. Oh the sad pitiful life of our beleaguered oligarchs.
At least in Russia you have to be Russian or a closely affiliated state to attain that level of influence
Plus you get defenestrated if you piss off the government.