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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

If all you have is intellectual dishonesty, you're finally out of ideas and cornered

[–] [email protected] 132 points 6 days ago (7 children)

None of them are geniuses, it's just really hard to lose at capitalism when you have capital.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Its a human blind spot. A lot of people confuse wealth for intelligence. In lower socio-economic levels, succeeding involves a lot of intelligence. Its a fucking struggle. Lots of fish trying to eat each other and take what little resources we have. One fuck up and it's all over. So anyone that is succeeding is also someone that with enough intelligence to foresee pitfalls and avoid them or escape with their wealth.

Those values are used to evaluate the people at the top which are swimming in a whole different pond. The neopotism and safety nets built into the upper crust of society is not part of the calculation that a lot of people use to factor into how they see these people. They still apply the same dog eat dog mentality to the upper crust of society.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

honestly wealth at any level requires luck… intelligence barely factors into it. it’s less that 1 fuck up and it’s all over, and more that 1 fuck up without someone to cover it up or bail you out and it’s all over… the wealthier you are, the bigger the fuck up before you or someone else can bail you out:

poor? it’s an unexpected car issue

rich? it’s that you fucked over literally an entire country for years on end in a very public way that gained you very little

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

But Musk wants to be a trailblazer and prove that you can lose at anything.

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[–] phoenixz 12 points 5 days ago

Genuine retard, it always was genuine retard

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The thing is, this turd burgler could lose millions a day for the rest of his life and still retire more well-off than just about anybody. When's the last time a truly filthy rich person ended up in the gutter?

[–] skisnow 6 points 5 days ago

If his wealth were a US treasury bond, he'd have to spend at least $50,000,000 every DAY in order to not still keep getting richer.

Take a moment to think about how difficult it is to spend $50,000,000. If I gave you 24 hours to do it using Brewster's Millions rules, you'd struggle.

There is no good reason for billionaires to exist.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I had to look it up. Pajeet is a racial slur in SE Asia, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Leave it to 4chan to import all the slurs from around the world

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Perhaps even less surprising, this particular racial slur apparently came from 4chan.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Next stop: Build an underwater city.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

I wish more billionaires would get on those... and visit WW1 era military shipwrecks...

spoilerThe reason why that is a terrible idea is because during WW1, many naval artillery shells used picric acid as an explosive filler, picric acid reacts readily with metals to form highly sensitive picrate salts that are very sensitive to detonation upon being disturbed. Meaning messing with them even slightly has a significant risk of a massive underwater explosion happening. WW1 era military shipwrecks are strictly off limits to divers for that very reason.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I'll donate my Playstation controllers for his scouting sub.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Genuinely a retard and yes that is the correct word and stop trying to police it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No. If you use a slur about disabled people to insult anyone, you're just an asshole. No matter what a disgusting piece of shit anyone is, using that word to insult is just awful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was about people like you.

Also, your comment is offensive to fecalphiliacs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you serious? Like, someone says "please don't use shitty slurs that discriminating disabled people" and your instinctive reaction is "THEY SILENCE ME AND CRIMINALIZE KNOWLEDGE". That's just pathetic. You can be an asshole, but get over being called one then.

And unrelated, but Fahrenheit is an awful book lol. Good dystopias are 1984, Brave New World or We. Fahrenheit 451 is just the author mad about television and saying that it's so stupid and will ruin everyone's brain. While the thought itself of knowledge being forbidden can be interesting and is an element in other dystopias, Fahrenheit is mainly based on the pure belief that books are a better medium than television, which is beyond ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

TIL you haven't read Fahrenheit 451

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (3 children)

He already has fuck you money so he doesn't give any fucks.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are you serious? He wants people to think he’s cool SO bad it’s genuinely so pathetic lol. All the other billionaires you could say that. But Elon is so desperate for people to think he’s this funny cool based guy it’s hilarious

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

That is partly true, but also he's a strong narcissist. They make up their own stories. They'll play up the feud to take eyes off of other bad shit.

Don't think for a second he lost or he's gone or it's all over for him. He doesn't see it that way.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (6 children)

For now, he does have that yes, but his wealth is for a significant portion a house of cards built on the value of tesla stock. If the value of that stock falls far enough, lenders who gave him loans with tesla stock as collateral could margin call him, essentially asking for more collateral. That could make him the poorest person in the world quite quickly, i.e. billions in debt.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Don't forget completely mismanaging Twitter, and turning it into even more of a cesspool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

that may have been entirely or mostly intentional, because it's now 100% a right-wing propaganda machine and it got Trump elected

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (19 children)

I wonder if the trump cult also now hates him after saying he was the goat for the last 6 months.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

He is secretly a shareholder in BYD and shorting Tesla. Nothing else makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hard crash on the businesses, he sells whatever he has that's worth good money (other, not his, companies stock) and buys a bunch of the destroyed stock. Promises to cede control, but continue funding. Tesla rebrands, becomes affordable and consumer friendly.

I mean, there's no way he would let all that happen. But he's still sitting on an absolutely massive pile of money. If he had the balls to pull the rip cord he could sit right where he is for the rest of his life. He just doesn't have it in him.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

If I had fuck you money I'd buy Mount Everest, use my boring company to build a fucking subway railcar tunnel escalator thing. And then build an evil lair on top of my Everest. Fill a moat with lava or some shit, and then never see people again.

Id hollow out the mountain enough for artificial farms and then pay the local community filthy amounts of money to produce my food for me.

Oh. And also, 20 million to whoever can make proton work 100% on ARM64 or create a compatibility layer for x86/64 for ARM.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Are people that stupid to overvalue Tesla that much for years or is somebody stabilizing the market rate? Somebody is playing 5D chess but it is not Musk.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (9 children)

5d chess or not, hear me out.

He may be autistic enough to burn it all down from the inside.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (4 children)

It's not fucking autism it's the fact he's a perpetually kholed dickhead

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He's not stupid, only suffers from drug induced dementia

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (5 children)
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