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[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago

We need so many more Luigis.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

No other system can or ever will work. Facts.

Super facts.

Facts beyond fact checking.

Try something else. I dare you.

Wait. No.

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The system is broken.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 111 points 3 days ago (16 children)

I am firmly convinced that most of the problems facing humanity can be traced directly back to billionaires like him.

It’s quite simple: you can only become that rich if you are an utterly inhuman, unscrupulous monster. Unfortunately, it is precisely these monsters who rule the world, and they have created systems that require you to be a monster in order to succeed.

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A healthy society does not have billionares, indeed.

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[–] fizzle@quokk.au 33 points 3 days ago

I don't care at all about how they acquired their wealth.

Its just not in anyone's best interest to have so much wealth horded and controlled by one person.

He's using that money to influence social norms and political outcomes. It means he's pretty much the unelected supreme leader of the terran empire.

[–] te_abstract_art@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you considered that maybe he just works 1-10 billion times harder than the rest of us, and therefore earned that money fair and square?

/s

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago

I am firmly convinced that most of the problems facing humanity can be traced directly back to billionaires like him

No doubt about it.

It’s quite simple: you can only become that rich if you are an utterly inhuman, unscrupulous monster

Unfortunately, it is precisely these monsters who rule the world, and they have created systems that require you to be a monster in order to succeed.

As for a solution..

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[–] ItsMeForRealNow@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I genuinely hope he or pat of his person quits before that and he becomes the too close to sun example in real life.

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[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 39 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I hate people writing about his "worth". He's worth shit. He robbed 800 billion from us.

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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is an oversimplification.

He ALSO stopped us from having good public transportation, built a dangerous deathtrap maze of underground tunnels, built cars that straight up murdered people, and blew up billions in taxpayer dollars multiple times.

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[–] Ready_Player_01@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Western culture celebrates greed, and remains silent on colonization.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Musk isn’t worth US$800B, it’s how much he’s been permitted to hoard.

No one can earn a billion dollars, that level of wealth concentration can only ever be forcibly extracted from the work of millions of others, or gifted from someone who did.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Okay but hear me out: guillotines are really fucking cute.

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (4 children)

In reality when that happens, the other monkeys beat the hoarding monkey to death and redistribute the hoarded food. (by redistrubute i mean have a feas and no more hoarding asshole)

If only we could really get back to our roots and be more natural

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His shitty IPO is coming up, so that's gonna sink soon.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

How much of that 800 billion is SpaceX though? I figured it would mostly be Tesla.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 days ago (19 children)

If we killed Elon Musk and took all of his assets, we could buy every homeless person in the US a $990,000 house.

If we killed Elon Musk and took all of his assets, we could eliminate world hunger for 24 years.

If we killed Elon Musk and took all of his assets, We could buy every NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL team. We’d have enough money left over to also buy the top 20 European Soccer teams.

If we killed Elon Musk and took all of his assets, we could fund NASA at its current budget for 40 years.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

If you killed musk and took all his assets you could get though a few percent of them before it collapsed and all became absolutely worthless. If you tried to liquidated it all for cash or into purely charitable goods and services.

Value like that is almost entirely based on the momentum and flow of money though it as a means of investment.

The moment you stop that momentum all the value goes away with it.

I wouldn't be surprised if you could even get 1 billion out of all his assets before you destroyed their worth trying to liquidated it all.

[–] jonesey71@lemmus.org 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Alternatively if we just took all his assets and didn't kill him we could put Elon Musk to work in an emerald mine in South Africa and get some added value.

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[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You had me a we could kill musk.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

These are true facts, however it's also true that we already have a number of unsold homes on the market greater than we have number of homeless people. We already make enough food to feed everyone. We just choose to let people sleep hungry on the streets. That's what our democracy has voted for.

So what does musk's billions and trillions matter? He could have two trillion tomorrow, and we'd still have enough money as a country to take care of everyone, and we would count up the votes that say not to.

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[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It’s important to note that even with all that money he still is far less happy than the average American. Imagine having so much wealth, not knowing what to do with it, having spent it on a botched penis enlargement and now no amount of money can fix even that.

Not to mention that by now the list of failures and broken promises is getting very long: hyperloops to prevent investment into rail, colonies on mars to avoid deal with all the shit he’s help wrong on earth, full self driving if you don’t mention that full doesn’t mean full and the cemeteries full of people who have died believing it did mean that, and how could I forget

Lying about Epstein and rigging the presidential election so a childfucker can destroy the country you weren’t even born in and barely pay any taxes for.

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[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

worlds biggest cancer cell continues growing

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[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

His value is inflated speculation bs. I think investors are overleveraged on Elon’s meme stocks and are keeping those stocks inflated.

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