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How are you feeling about the first Trillionaire?(trulytyped.com)

10 points·by dwa3592·27 giorni fa·13 comments
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How are you feeling about the first Trillionaire?

https://trulytyped.com/post/BRCYJA

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rationalist·27 giorni fa
It's not cash sitting in an account. It's completely meaningless and just used as a political lever IMO.

He didn't steal $120+ from every person on earth, he created a trillion in "value".

We aren't poorer for Tesla and SpaceX existing.

For what it's worth: I have no financial interest with any of his companies or own any of their products. I feel like I'm neutral third party.

So how do I feel? No different than before he was a "trillionaire".
dlcarrier·27 giorni fa
Also, an IPO makes the value of a company public, but doesn't necessarily increase the value, so the IPO just made it clear that he already was a trillionaire.
rvz·27 giorni fa
Would you rather:

A: Have $100M - $1BN in cash without a calendar full of meetings and you have the freedom to control your time.

B: Have $800BN - $1TN in stock which you cannot sell and you have a calendar full of daily meetings, zero breaks, and you can’t retire or speak freely because you carry a lot of market risk to your shareholders?
drob518·27 giorni fa
IMO, Elon is this century's Howard Hughes.
MrGrinchh·27 giorni fa
Kinda, other than the fact that Elon musk has fourteen children and Howard Hughes had zero.
drob518·27 giorni fa
Zero that we know of. But back then you tended to hide your bastards.
dlcarrier·27 giorni fa
Probate courts dug pretty deep after he died, and no one had any reasonable evidence of being his child. Nowadays they'd use DNA, but I doubt it would've made a difference.
dotcoma·27 giorni fa
And this century’s Charles Ponzi.
abdelhousni·27 giorni fa
it looks like a nazi, kills millions like the nazis, even salutes like the nazis... Our pattern recognition seems lacking...
mdotk·27 giorni fa
Absolutely fine.
root-parent·27 giorni fa
"Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of killing poor children by cutting foreign aid" - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bill-gates-accuses-elon...
dwa3592·27 giorni fa
I wonder if there is any evidence linking the ebola outbreak to the reduction in aid.
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robberat7·27 giorni fa
alternate title : Trillionaire cuts millions in funding for poor people.