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Elon Musk is currently worth more than the next 5 richest people combined

6 points by iamben 3mo ago

ck2 3mo ago
a better perspective is he is worth more than HALF THE WORLD POPULATION COMBINED he is worth FOUR BILLION PEOPLE should not be physically possible, it's a failure of humanity
- rationalist 3mo ago
  > he is worth No, he has ownership in stuff valued at X amount. > should not be physically possible And it isn't. It's all imaginary. He doesn't have 4 billion apples compared to my 1 apple. > it's a failure of humanity People need to stop letting emotions override their critical thinking. It's a failure of critical thinking, not humanity (unless you judge humanity on its ability to think critically, in which case it's you and not Elon Musk that is leading towards the failure of humanity).
  - cr1895 3mo ago
    >And it isn't. It's all imaginary. He doesn't have 4 billion apples compared to my 1 apple. What isn’t imaginary is the outsize leverage that his 4 billion non-Apples afford him…
  - ck2 3mo ago
    if you have an asset that can be sold, that's part of your worth/wealth Musk has told tens of billions of dollars in stocks over the years in just 2021 he sold $40 BILLION in stock even single-digit billionaires are wealthy beyond comprehension Musk could sell $100 BILLION in stock this year if he wanted, that's not imaginary btw every other billionaire has donated to charity, Musk never does even the evil Koch Bros have funded hospital cancer wings all over, Musk never does instead he created his own fake Foundation and only gave it $14 Billion for his own projects he's silo-ing insane levels of wealth, the worst kind of person
    - rationalist 3mo ago
      > if you have an asset that can be sold, that's part of your worth I guess the difference between you and I; I don't judge someone's worth that way. I also don't presume to tell others what to do with their own stuff. Monetary wealth at those levels is imaginary. Once you can get past that, you'll be a much happier person. Also, I don't think someone "silo-ing insane levels of wealth" is worse than a child murderer.
xvxvx 3mo ago
Perhaps, if mankind survives, this will be used as a teaching point to future generations on how wealth is mostly fantasy. Some people play Magic the Gathering. Others play the stock market.

6 points by iamben 3mo ago

ck2 3mo ago

a better perspective is he is worth more than HALF THE WORLD POPULATION COMBINED he is worth FOUR BILLION PEOPLE should not be physically possible, it's a failure of humanity

rationalist 3mo ago
> he is worth No, he has ownership in stuff valued at X amount. > should not be physically possible And it isn't. It's all imaginary. He doesn't have 4 billion apples compared to my 1 apple. > it's a failure of humanity People need to stop letting emotions override their critical thinking. It's a failure of critical thinking, not humanity (unless you judge humanity on its ability to think critically, in which case it's you and not Elon Musk that is leading towards the failure of humanity).
- cr1895 3mo ago
  >And it isn't. It's all imaginary. He doesn't have 4 billion apples compared to my 1 apple. What isn’t imaginary is the outsize leverage that his 4 billion non-Apples afford him…
- ck2 3mo ago
  if you have an asset that can be sold, that's part of your worth/wealth Musk has told tens of billions of dollars in stocks over the years in just 2021 he sold $40 BILLION in stock even single-digit billionaires are wealthy beyond comprehension Musk could sell $100 BILLION in stock this year if he wanted, that's not imaginary btw every other billionaire has donated to charity, Musk never does even the evil Koch Bros have funded hospital cancer wings all over, Musk never does instead he created his own fake Foundation and only gave it $14 Billion for his own projects he's silo-ing insane levels of wealth, the worst kind of person
  - rationalist 3mo ago
    > if you have an asset that can be sold, that's part of your worth I guess the difference between you and I; I don't judge someone's worth that way. I also don't presume to tell others what to do with their own stuff. Monetary wealth at those levels is imaginary. Once you can get past that, you'll be a much happier person. Also, I don't think someone "silo-ing insane levels of wealth" is worse than a child murderer.

xvxvx 3mo ago

Perhaps, if mankind survives, this will be used as a teaching point to future generations on how wealth is mostly fantasy. Some people play Magic the Gathering. Others play the stock market.