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[–] Iambus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] fadhl3y@feddit.uk 14 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Next stop: Build an underwater city.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

Hey, you need a taxi?

[–] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Would you kindly....?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours 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.

[–] EchoSnail@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 23 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

A lot of people confuse wealth for intelligence.

Smart people who make good products that people want will have the invisible hand distribute them wealth. Dumb people who make bad products that no one wants will go backrupt. This is the core philosophy behind why capitalism "works." It is a system that conflates wealth with virtue, by design.

You're right to point out that it is incorrect logic, but no one is confusing anything. The entirety of our Western world is build around this idea and reinforces it to its people at every single opportunity. They're making the judgements that they have been told are correct. Can we really say people are confused when they're confidently acting exactly as they've been taught from birth?

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

I like the way you put it

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago

Look I don't like Musk either but even starting off wealthy becoming the richest man in the world takes some doing. He was way ahead of the curve on reusable rockets and EVs and succeed there where a bunch of people failed. I think where he fails is when it comes to protecting his image and maintaining relationships. He's a thin-skinned narcissist who thinks he's humanity's savoir and eventually that got to him.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

5d chess or not, hear me out.

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

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

k-hole'd

For any confused readers.

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

why are we still using autistic as an insult in 2025?

he may be moronic enough to burn it all down from the inside, but autism doesn't have shit to do with it. I'm tired of people trying to use autism as an get out of jail free card for utter stupidity. autism has very little to do with intelligence levels, and even if it does, it's the other way around according to most studies.

[–] nednobbins@lemm.ee 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Have you looked up the history of the word "moron"?

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

can't say I had, but I have now. thanks for the info. the point still stands.

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[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 hours ago (2 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?

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

filthy rich person ended up in the gutter?

there’s not much that i like about the american healthcare system but the idea of fElon eventually ending up bankrupt because of that fucking black eye really had me thinking “maybe there’s something to this”

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

That was my thought. I've never tried ketamine, but watching this clown dance through crises that would destroy a normal person makes me tempted to experiment.

[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] plyth@feddit.org 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

It's because so many institutional investors own Tesla stock. Most of the big hedge funds and that kind of thing. At least that's what I've heard, but it makes sense to me.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 19 points 6 hours ago (3 children)
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I always assumed he was a moderately intelligent tech CEO until I saw a clip a few years ago where he was showing off the evolution of Starlink rockets and he referred to the piping and whatnot on the outside of the rockets as "the fiddly bits".

Unrelated, but he was also wearing a t-shirt that highlighted his noodle arms and his man boobs. You would think that somebody vain enough to get hair implants and plastic surgery would have enough sense to at least dress in a flattering manner.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

if you've seen his body you know there's no fabric on this here earth that can flatter his troglodyte figure.

he was always assumed to be somewhat smart by people who don't know what he's talking about. the moment he talks about anything you know you realize he's full of shit. that's why astronauts he idolized for example never bought his shit, even when he was at his peak of popularity.

he's the embodiment of "it's better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt". he's also the best counterargument to any idiot who thinks we live in a meritocratic system.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

"He was also stupid" - Ron Howard.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

He used to be stupid. He still is, but he used to be, too.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

i don't understand these figures

Lost $300,000,000 with Trump Losing billions more by the day

[–] TheOgreChef@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

$300mil was about how much he paid to buy the election, he’s lost about $33bil in stock value of Tesla in the last few days due to the public sniping with Agent Krasnov

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Ah, that makes sense

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 37 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

You mean S Asia? India isn't exactly east...

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 42 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

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

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