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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

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.

unmagical ,

As long as you aren’t sleeping in your bed when the police get the wrong address, or sleeping in an encampment when the police decide to steal all your belongings for living while poor, or kicked out of the library for not having access to a bathroom, or finding yourself in a grocer, mall, concert hall, theatre, school, etc on a day a shooter decides to show up.

Also you can’t survive on $1 per day without someone caring for you. That will not keep you off the streets and fed, and it will most definitely not cover fees for access to self improvement resources or recovery.

ShaggySnacks ,

Grade A delusional thinking.

wildncrazyguy138 ,

Yea but this is grade A in the same way that school lunch ketchup is grade A.

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.

HubertManne ,

https://youtu.be/H27rfr59RiE?t=50

bradorsomething ,

Wait, I only donated ten cents a day to an african child, what the hell, suzanne summers?

shadearg ,
@shadearg@lemmy.world avatar

Now I’ve got a young Sally Struthers in my head pimpin’ out ThighMaster.

Odd times.

Bookmeat ,

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

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.

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.

snekerpimp ,

“Why don’t you just eat cake?”

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¢

danc4498 ,

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

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.

Susaga ,

“That’ll show those poor!”
“Why are you cheering? You’re not rich.”
“True, but someday, I might be. And then people like me had better watch their step!”

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?

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

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