It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.

  • @Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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    292 years ago

    44b sounds like a lot of money (it is!), but his net worth right now is 219b after this fiasco. At this point it’s just a score between rich assholes who got the bigger number.

    You could take 200b away from his evaluation and he could still retire on a yacht and not work a single day in the next 100 years. Same for his children and his children’s children.

    So yeah, “bad” financial investment, but it might be worth for him to kill one of the biggest platforms where he was called out for his bullshit.

    • @wahming@monyet.cc
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      32 years ago

      Thing is, now ALL the platforms are calling out his BS. I don’t think he would have sold his golden boy reputation for any price, given the choice

    • @EliasChao@lemmy.one
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      22 years ago

      To be fair, Elon doesn’t all have that money in cash. Also, like half of the Twitter buyout was made possible with a loan where he used his a Tesla stocks for like half of the operations as collateral.

      Although I agree that he’s far from being broke, this can become a pretty bad financial decision to Elon.