hufflesnuff
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WTF are you gonna do with a trillion dollars? Buy Poland?
Sep 5, 2025 10:45 AM
hufflesnuff
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WTF are you gonna do with a trillion dollars? Buy Poland?
NewtGinGrinch
Maybe he's building a new space station.
RonnieSoak
Do you think hes watching Alien Earth and thought "i like the sound of that, let's do it"?
ThrockmortonTheSkateboarder
He could also become dead if someone decides to take up Luigi's mantle.
getadogupya
What is he going to do with a trillion?
He's going to amuse himself by fucking up millions of people's lived... that's what he's going to do.
INeverReadTheTOS
"Elon Musk decides to give himself a trillion of other peoples' dollars; world seemingly not allowed to stop him"
Bex316
Being a trillionaire should carry the death penalty
spangolio
what a giant fuck you to all the people building his products
karashu2000
Kenbamazingbutprobablywontbe
His worth is dependent on how much people keep buying his products. Because his wealth is directly tied to stock prices.
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
You could buy Poland AND 10 kilos of kielbasa.
gayvillian
They obviously wont fake data to meet these goals like they did last time...
ricbri695
Hard to believe it if sales continue on their current trajectory
totallynotatimetraveler
can we fucking tax this asshole already?!?!
historycat
But then he'll go somewhere else!
Oh, and his wealth is all on paper. So we'd have to tax his company, and you know that the world would collapse if a company is taxed! /$
turbodog
The birth of the Harkonnens.
chackstar
He could set fire to $1,000,000 a day for 2739 years.
loopdesigns
Take from the needy and give to the greedy.
MungChomper69420
Does he still carry around his human shield?
KR1570F
One of those targets should be unhinging his jaw and swallowing himself in one whole gulp.
FaecalJacksonPollock
KR1570F
that's a chipper thought. I bet elon could get really granular with this kind of thinking.
Mithi
Feet first!
mercyPandaRunner
There wasn't a single billionaire until the early 20th century. Rockefeller, I think, was the first dollar billionaire.
That is to be taken with a grain of salt, because that's a Dollar equivalent metric and it is not accounting for Inflation. 1 billion today might have been the equivalent of a few hundred dollars 300-400 years ago. Entire mational budgets were sometimes measured in the 1000s of gold coins. On the other hand, during the hyperinflation in Germany, there were millions of >
mercyPandaRunner
billionaires who could barely afford bread.
The category of a billionaire isn't an absolutely useful historical concept outside of our current era.
Infinias
And he is this only on paper. He cannot bill out this amount like Dagobert Duck. If he tries to sell his shares the system would collapse.
mercyPandaRunner
That doesn't matter. As he and other of his category have proven, they can get whatever money they want, be it liquifying assets or loans on the basis that he has those assets. Does he have 44 billion dollar under his pillow? No. But when he wants to spend 44 billion on an ego project, he has them.
Your argument somehow only applies in practice, when its about paying taxes.
FreshBundleOfStick
This argument doesn't work well after he was able to buy Twitter without much consequences for his wealth.
hufflesnuff
Money is made out of paper, lol. Billionaires do not have liquidity problems. Banks can and will loan them money at or near 0% interest so they don't have to sell their shares. These guys are rich enough to buy the banks after all. It wouldn't cost much more to buy Deutsche Bank than to buy Twitter. SoFi is cheaper than Twitter was.