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ELON MUSK - Worlds first Trillionaire

up_the_valley
up_the_valley Posts: 4,590
edited June 14 in Not Sports Related

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/czj8dd0kyl7t

Absolutely crazy money.

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  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,690
    If you have a dollar, you are closer in wealth to the world's second richest man than he is to Musk. 

    Absolutely fucking obscene. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 24,044
    The most embarrassing human to ever live? Certainly up there 
  • BDS
    BDS Posts: 9
    Worlds richest man, but only the worlds 4th biggest c*nt
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,926
    Musk buying Millwall would be on brand.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,690
    Musk buying Millwall would be on brand.
    I'm sure we did a thread on that already a while back? 😂 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 48,237
    He revels in decimating US jobs, has this stupid notion of going to Mars and makes crap cars. In terms of Mars, it is a planet that is not hospitable, will likely men if you land there you have to stay there and won't herald interstellar space travel. It is a vanity project bit I would support it if he decides to go there. Before anybody says we can terraform Mars, why don't we sort this planet out, it has to be so much easier?
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,767
    His wealth is only slightly less than that of all New Zealanders put together.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 14,476
    He revels in decimating US jobs, has this stupid notion of going to Mars and makes crap cars. In terms of Mars, it is a planet that is not hospitable, will likely men if you land there you have to stay there and won't herald interstellar space travel. It is a vanity project bit I would support it if he decides to go there. Before anybody says we can terraform Mars, why don't we sort this planet out, it has to be so much easier?
    I would support him taking as many trips in Space X rockets as is required for him to be in one as it explodes.
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 26,702
    edited 7:43AM
    What a thread to wake up to...pass me the bucket...🤢🤮

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBSpmoA8V78&list=RDTBSpmoA8V78&start_radio=1

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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 51,195
    Imagine having all that wealth and not at least try to solve some of the blindingly obvious and terrible things in the world. eg. He could help solve this and leave probably the greatest legacy in all of humankind. Instead he’s decided to be a prick.

    The figures are truly devastating.

    Diseases linked to unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation and poor hygiene kill more than 1,000 children under age 5 every single day. 

    That’s roughly one child every 2 minutes.

    According to the WHO, better water, sanitation, and hygiene could prevent around 1,000 of these child deaths per day  — meaning these deaths are almost entirely preventable.

    The scale of the problem:

    • 1 in 4 people globally — around 2.1 billion — still lack access to safely managed drinking water, including 106 million who drink directly from untreated surface sources 
    • More than 1 million people die each year from lack of access to safe water and sanitation 

    The cruel irony is that improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene could save 1.4 million lives per year  — the solutions exist, it’s purely a matter of global priority and investment.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 19,286
    This is a man who celebrated cutting aid to the poorest and reveals in the amount of death that caused.

    Hes also funding the likes of Stephen Yaxley Lennon to pour sewage into this countries bloodstream. 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,162
    edited 8:03AM
    Imagine having all that wealth and not at least try to solve some of the blindingly obvious and terrible things in the world. eg. He could help solve this and leave probably the greatest legacy in all of humankind. Instead he’s decided to be a prick.

    The figures are truly devastating.

    Diseases linked to unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation and poor hygiene kill more than 1,000 children under age 5 every single day. 

    That’s roughly one child every 2 minutes.

    According to the WHO, better water, sanitation, and hygiene could prevent around 1,000 of these child deaths per day  — meaning these deaths are almost entirely preventable.

    The scale of the problem:

    • 1 in 4 people globally — around 2.1 billion — still lack access to safely managed drinking water, including 106 million who drink directly from untreated surface sources 
    • More than 1 million people die each year from lack of access to safe water and sanitation 

    The cruel irony is that improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene could save 1.4 million lives per year  — the solutions exist, it’s purely a matter of global priority and investment.
    Not only has he not done anything to help any of those situations hes actively made them worse. His "DOGE" cutting spree (for his own personal gain) gutted US Aid which conservative estimates suggest has already led to 750,000 deaths worldwide and will over the course of the next decade lead to an estimated 14million.  https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issues/making-foreign-aid-work/inside-the-demise-of-usaidand-what-comes-next/
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2jjpm7zv8o

    Or remember a few years ago when Musk said to the UN if they could solve world hunger for $6bn he would sell Tesla stock to donate that cash to do it. They produced a fully costed, itemised proposal and he just went "Nah, don't fancy it anymore". Who on here wouldnt donate 0.5% of their net worth to end world hunger?

    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/18/tech/elon-musk-world-hunger-wfp-donation

    Imagine having more wealth than is physically possible to spend in a thousand lifetimes and not having your name on a single school, hospital, community centre, or anything. The face of pure evil. 

    History will look back on him with distain. But the bigger question history will study is how and why he managed to get so much adoration from ordinary people when he was so openly evil. 
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 30,413
    1 million seconds is 11 1/2 days 
    1 billion seconds is 31 years & 8 months 
    1 trillion seconds is more than 31,000 years.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,653
    It would cost about $120bn to eliminate malaria, globally. If only there was someone with enough resource to do that...
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,162
    Apparently he really loves it when people on social media (particularly his social media which I am no longer on) refer to him as Ellen. A small way you can annoy him should you so wish if you are still on that platform
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 23,334
    He could end world hunger, end malaria, solve the clean water problem and still be the richest man in the world
  • He is as obnoxious as everyone has pointed out but his wealth is not liquid, it’s tied up in what is to my mind, are some wildly overvalued equity holdings. 

    He has a ridiculous cult of followers which inflates any of his company’s stock. It feels like institutional investors jump on the bandwagon to profit as well. None of the valuations seem to add up from what I can see. Value seems to be tied up in brand Musk. His genius was best put to the test by DOGE and it was an unmitigated failure. 
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,463
    sam3110 said:
    He could end world hunger, end malaria, solve the clean water problem and still be the richest man in the world

    yes, but that would disproportionately benefit people who are not the same pasty colour as him, so why would he?
  • Diebythesword
    Diebythesword Posts: 820
    If I did loads of ketamine after my daughter cut me out, could I be a trillionaire too? 

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  • jose
    jose Posts: 1,378
    Glad to say I have never ever been on xitter, used paypole, or driven or bought a Teaser car. Nor have I travelled in a tin can into space.
    So all I know about the man is he is a rancid creep that does fascist salutes in public, speaks at the events for criminal evil racist Yaxley-Lennon, and lends tacit support for Nigel Fascist and his Refuk political party.
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 26,702
    edited 8:35AM
    Why are we even wasting our time on this waste of space piece of shite..🙄
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,769
    Yet he chooses to be a c*nt and not do anything of any social value with it. I hope he fucks off to Mars and takes his helmet off. 
    He did revolutionise the electric car industry. Electric cars would not be as good as they are today without Tesla having set the standard.