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hark ,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

Then he doesn’t need billions of dollars, right?

2001aCentenaryofFederation ,

Who is his audience when he tells lies like this? Like, who is agreeing with him? Even beyond how bonkers it is to say out loud, it also doesn’t benefit him to further alienate himself from the world, does it?

formergijoe ,

Crazy right wingers who go “Obviously we need to cut welfare so this genius doesn’t have to pay taxes! Then one day I will be just as rich as him and be glad I didn’t make people as rich as him and future-me pay taxes!”

2001aCentenaryofFederation ,

Right I had forgotten that liars often have other liars’ backs.

Illuminostro ,

YahooFINANCE. Some of the money people who literally worship wealth? You know, The American Dream?

xigoi ,
@xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

This comment is ironic considering that this article is exaggerating what Musk said.

2001aCentenaryofFederation ,

the entire article is a litany of musk’s lies. even if the $1 a day part is a stretch (because it’s in reference to food), the words straight from the horses mouth are blatantly untrue.

where is the irony? do you believe everything he says in the article?

xigoi ,
@xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

The headline and article seems to be hugely misleading. According to this article, the $1 was only for food and he did it as a challenge, not out of necessity.

HubertManne ,

I recall that even being rich his "friends" complain he wants to sleep on their couch and eat their food.

200ok ,

I figured this was how he “survived on $1/day”.

HubertManne ,

xactly. once a parasite always a parasite.

Fuckfuckmyfuckingass ,
@Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve heard that he said the film “Parasite” is his favorite movie. Which I couldn’t wrap my head around when I heard that years ago, but as we’ve seen there’s no level of cognitive dissonance too low for Elon.

Lucidlethargy ,

Just like the tiny home show people… There’s always a friend or family member with a plot of land for them.

Illuminostro ,

There’s a reason rich people usually stay rich: they hate to spend their own money. On anything.

Lucidlethargy ,

“I saved up all week to buy one banana for $7, and that sustained me the rest of the next week!”

-Elon Musk, clueless asshole

Edit: Fun fact: Elon could read this a dozen times and still not get the joke.

Spitzspot ,
@Spitzspot@lemmings.world avatar

He’s rapidly headed back to that income level.

ShareMySims , (edited )

I get that it’s nice to imagine, but no, he really fucking isn’t, and not just because he never was on that income level, but because he is so obscenely rich, that even if all his current ventures fail spectacularly, he has enough to fall back on a few million times over.

givesomefucks ,

You assume he’d act rationally and invest in even more ridiculous wasted of money…

He’s not smart enough to keep a backup, because even if it’s just a million, he’ll think he can turn it into a billion.

As rich as he is, he’ll live another 40 years. More than enough time to burn all his money. Don’t forget everything is leveraged against each other, his money is built on stock prices, and he’s picking a fight with Brazil while using a shit ton of drugs

If Space X loses it’s governments contracts, literally everything would go up in smoke and he’d desperately try to make what he lost back.

A deat spiral isn’t implausible

SomeoneSomewhere ,

SpaceX has enough of a lead over everyone else that I don’t think them simply being denied government contracts is feasible, in a too-big-to-fail way.

You’d see some kind of forced nationalisation or being strongarmed into selling to another defense contractor on national security grounds.

Elmo might choose some kind of “if I can’t have it, no one can” sabotage though.

givesomefucks ,

And the damage he did would drastically reduce the price and likely cost a lot in lawyers.

That’s what I mean, he’ll always do the worst thing possible.

Hell piss away millions after billions and won’t stop till he has negative wealth.

Spitzspot ,
@Spitzspot@lemmings.world avatar

He’s massively leveraged.

ShareMySims ,

Lol, ok.

Like I said, I get that it’s nice to imagine, but the only person you’re convincing (more like fooling) is yourself, if you seriously believe he will ever end up anywhere even remotely near poor.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Look man…we’re doing what we can out here to survive. Not only financially, but mentally too.

So if we want to jack off at the idea of him becoming homeless, and locked away in an insane asylum with kanye west and joe rogan, then that’s what we’re going to do to get us through the day.

And this $1 lotto ticket is going to make me rich. Gonna win a billion dollars.

And then we’re all going to eat lobster, and kiss babies, and live on the moon!

It’s all going to happen, ok? OK??!!

Illuminostro ,

It’s impossible for him to go broke without having all his assets seized. He can sell his millions of shares of stock and still be a billionaire.

gedaliyah ,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar 

<span style="color:#323232;">Rent: 22¢ (couch split w/ 44 friends)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Breakfast: 11¢ (2 eggs)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">.......... 1¢ (electricity borrowed from neighbor)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">.......... Free (skillet found in street)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Gym membership: Free (lifting rocks)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Commute: 4¢ (walking in two used Kleenex boxes for shoes)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lunch: 30¢ (cup filled with ketchup from Wendy's pump)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Commute home: 20¢ (walk on hands, use bandaid for blisters)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Clothes: 16¢ (Scotch tape for holding together discarded pizza boxes)
</span>

Yeah, that checks out.

thisbenzingring ,

Do you think the staff at the Wendy’s get annoyed at having to see that poor bastard pump a full cup of ketchup every day.

Like oh jeez, I hope you filled that thing today. I cannot take a half hour of the slurping noise as Johnny makes the most of his 30¢

Tikiporch ,

So it only costs $365 a year to survive in America. Neat.

Thann ,
@Thann@lemmy.ml avatar

Back when rent was $30

JBar2 ,

muckrack.com/jeannine-mancini/articles

www.linkedin.com/in/jeannine-mancini-9b4348224

If this is a real writer and not AI generated content (with a fake public profile), it’s a college student doing intern work writing articles on topics she is given.

It’s clickbait, pure and simple

BassTurd ,

I too lived on a dollar or less a day before becoming the lower middle class person I am today. It’s easy when your parents buy everything for you and you don’t have expenses.

haunte ,

Exactly. Didn’t he come over for college? So he lived in a dorm (paid for by dad), had a full meal plan (paid for by dad), all his school, clothing, and insurance were taken care of… that just leaves the pack of chewing gum he bought every morning on his way to class. Pretty easy!

shoulderoforion ,
@shoulderoforion@fedia.io avatar

well that was a lie.gif

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Bitch, you came from an emerald mine, walkin’ the streets with gems in your pockets. Shut the fuck up.

Hobbes_Dent ,

🎶 People say he’s crazy

He’s got emeralds on the soles of his shoes 🎶

Zachariah ,
@Zachariah@lemmy.world avatar

ta na na na

danc4498 ,

$1 a day ignores all the favors he received. How much did that add up to? Most people don’t have that luxury.

snekerpimp ,

“Why don’t you just eat cake?”

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