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Elon Musk is currently worth more than the next 5 richest people combined (forbes.com)
6 points by iamben 44 days ago
2 comments
xvxvx 44 days 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.
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ck2 44 days 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

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rationalist 44 days 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).

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cr1895 43 days 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…

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ck2 44 days 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

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rationalist 44 days 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.

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