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[–] usernametbd@lemmy.zip 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He is as overvalued as his companies. The stock markets speculation and juicing of stock prices on hype is so obscene. Space X lost billions last year. Its road map to profitability is dependent on tech that doesn’t exist yet and government contracts from an over leveraged government and a right wing party rapidly losing favor. Tesla is wildly overvalued as well. He is a hype machine with little substance and his wealth is very tied to that hype. Fuck Elon.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

you're describing literally every billionaire

[–] usernametbd@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

True that - Elon is just the most glaring example.

[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

Most, maybe, but off the top of my head, I can think of two easy counterexamples:

  • Warren Buffett's wealth is in diverse investments; it's only inflated insofar as the entire stock market is overvalued
  • Gabe Newell's wealth is almost entirely in Steam, which isn't even publicly traded so can't really be overvalued by "hype"
[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago

So NOW it's gonna start trickling down right?

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can we guillotine him now?

[–] wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is he still wearing his kid like a human shield?

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don’t let that be excuse. He’s growing up under Musk’s guidance.

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah fuck him and his entire family besides his daughter that disowned him.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

One million seconds is 11.5 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

A million dollars would change anyone's life.

Nobody needs a billion dollars, and a trillion dollars is so obscene that humanity deserves to become extinct because we've allowed this to happen.

Elon could singlehandedly save the planet, but he'll take it all to his grave (on Mars), and then lawyers will fight over his mountains of money.

When it's all over, his money will help nobody...and he'll likely break a trillion by fleecing retirement funds out of all their money when SpaceX forces funds to buy into the pump & dump.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

It's funny that we're at the point where we have billionaires who aren't even on the same order of magnitude as those approaching the trillionaore threshold.

Imagine having 5 billion dollars to your name and some dude out there has 100 times that amount at 500 billion dollars.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

One million seconds is 11.5 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

Or with monetary comparisons, there's only a handfuld of countries on this planet with higher GPD than his net worth. Or, if that was somehow some kind of value instead of made-up numbers, Elon alone would contribute to the world about as much as half of Canada or everyone in Taiwan.

Obviously that doesn't quite work like that, but maybe one person should not have more financial leverage than majority of whole countries on the planet.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 days ago

Kill em all

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 6 points 2 days ago

Disgusting. Now let's tax the fuck outta him and all the other obscenely rich fucks!

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

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 trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.