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hark ,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

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

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.

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.

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

shoulderoforion ,
@shoulderoforion@fedia.io avatar

well that was a lie.gif

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!

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?

danc4498 ,

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

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¢

snekerpimp ,

“Why don’t you just eat cake?”

FlashMobOfOne ,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

I would be very surprised if someone born into wealth like Elon Musk ever dumpster dived for a burger or chicken nugget.

sp3tr4l ,

I mean, this story is obviously bullshit and has been debunked over the years.

Not to mention even on its face, the headline is just wrong.

Elon states he had an apartment, but also implies he lived in his office, coding 24/7.

So… he had an apartment and is exaggerating about how often he stayed late.

How much did that apartment cost?

???

Did he just walk to work?

Was he working but not earning a wage?

This is a total bullshit article even by its own text.

Maybe his food budget was about a dollar a day for a while. Sure, ok, that’s maybe possible.

This is like those stories that were going around a while ago with various corporations just displaying absolutely absurd budgets for how a person could afford to live on their full time minimum low income job…

By assuming rent is 40% lower than it is, that they don’t have to pay for car insurance, never have health problems, never need new clothes, barely eat and don’t have a phone or internet plan.

Bookmeat ,

Anyone can survive on $1 per day (for a month) when their expenses are only due once a month.

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