• bluetoofs@piefed.social
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    8 days ago

    He’s one of the biggest douchebags on Earth. Once people stop buying from and listening to him, we’ll be so much better off.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      8 days ago

      That’s the thing though. No one does buy anything from him and he’s still a trillionaire because it’s all theoretical. If he was forced to actually come up with the money he couldn’t.

      • Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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        8 days ago

        You do know they borrow against their wealth at close to zero percent interest, right? He probably cant get a trillon in cash but he could probably get $250 billion no problem.

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        8 days ago

        All market capitalization values are theoretical, and his is inflated the most. However. Tesla still sells a bunch of cars unfortunately. And SpaceX’s value is mostly propped up by StarLink, plus the playing with rockets side of it gets juicy government contracts

    • skisnow@lemmy.ca
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      7 days ago

      Didn’t he change Twitter a while back so that all users got automatically signed up to his insane bullshit posts? idk I’ve never been