If you think of it in the context that money is only a status symbol to those who have nothing else, ot makes perfect sense. It’s like Gollum going after the ring.
If i was anywhere near as rich as him id just be a recluse in a mansion filled with tons of femboy maids paid to pretend to love me. He doesn't have to be a grinch perpetually wanting more.
He's like (is) a drug addict who always wants another hit. His whole personality is his wealth. That's what I mean. People like him stop at nothing to protect the one defining quality, again like Gollum and his ring.
That would be about 50,000 lifetimes. Assuming he gave a $10M "start" to the oldest kid in every generation, his family could live for 3,650,000 years.
Just to visualize how much wealth he actually has (note: totally understand value / wealth / etc but lets just make this simple)
I’d give 90% of it away to charities. Think of the good you could do with that much money. Basically clear homelessness. Help vets. Pay huge swathes of medical debt.
It depends on the admin of it all (honestly I get bored of shit) but I'd probably just invest it all and give away the interest (or dividends or whatever else depending on method of investment).....there's an argument for setting up something long term vs a once off but also I haven't looked into it beyond the 2 minutes of reading your comment and typing this.
Either way I'd be doing other things than getting ego hurt every other day and ranting on twitter every hour.
I'm the worst "what would you do if you win the billion dollar lottery" player. Legitimately, give most of it away, I don't want all that money, I know what kind of money does to a human.
I might not be able to psychologically, because money corrupts. So it's a good thing that I don't play the lottery.
Yeah, I actually mapped this all out a while back because I read that most lottery winners blow it. The ticket I bought would have had a payout of around $3million annually after tax, and.... It was mostly boring. Some fun stuff, but it basically came down to, in order:
hire lawyer, accountant, etc
pay for all medical and similar procedures I've been putting off.
start house hunting
invest in the business my family's been involved in since I was a child
buy house for me, buy another house for my parents
furnish both houses to personal preference, best option of each. I don't mean luxury for luxury's own sake, but every appliance is going to be the best quality available, with the features I want most (or my parents, for their house).
buy car
by hobby stuff I couldn't afford before
take annual vacations
Doing all of that, and if I really, really pushed it HARD, I might be able to spend all 6 million in the first two years. Unlikely, but MAYBE possible.
After that I really run out of things that I want to spend that much money on. Sure, I could find ridiculous contrivances like diamond studded cookware to blow the money out if I really wanted to...... But nothing I actually want would be able to keep up with a sustained spending rate of more than $3 million a year
So after the first two years when I got my life in order, probably keep half a million, invest the other half a million, and donate the remaining 2 million.
I think the only thing that might prevent me from giving it to the nearest school or whatever is the idea that it could accrue money, and I could give that away every year. But yeah, I would need to pay someone that knew what the hell they were doing.
I have a house, would be nice to finish paying it off. Healthcare in my country is good, so nothing particularly urgent there. Public schools are good, so nothing education wise for kids. University isn't as ruinously expensive here compared to the US.
I'm sure I can think of cool luxury things to buy. A nice set of Lord of the Rings, with pretty bindings and lettering. Maybe some uni classes to formally learn (modern) Greek, like I'm trying to practice now. But they're things I can get right now, I just can't justify them with my current budget.
I'm sure I can think of a thousand things but... eh. I'm not sure how much they'd make me happier.
With the money he has, he’d still be multi billionaire if the donated 90%, and could live in a castle filled with femboys that would truly love him. That’s enough money to buy love, and he still cannot do it.
Well you need a large organization to deploy the money in all those ways and that organization is going to take the lion's share of the money you're "giving away"
We should honestly start viewing the need of some people to accrue those kinds of resources solely for themselves and for no real reason beyond greed as a form of pychopathy.
We legit have the resources and tech needed to ensure everyone has food, clean water, a roof over their heads, and medical care while also allowing for personal growth. And I'm not just talking about the US, Europe, or China, the whole world could be uplifted.
Nah, gates puts his money into a foundation and skirts our local tax US laws. He donates to npr and they write puff pieces aggrandizing him. He is smarter than musk though. He likes the good press about him, that he pays for, the safety of his life, and doesn't start shit.
Bill Gates put the money into his own charity fund....which only legally needs to spend like a tiny fraction into actual charity things, rest can be spent on shit that benefits him. It's not the same, it's just a very common method of tax evasion in western countries that can generate good press. Look at how many very wealthy people own/run charity funds....it's not altruism, it's tax minimisation.
Same here, but I wouldn't give it to random charities: donating food is great but doesn't cure hunger in the long run. If you give a poor man a fish he's fed for a day but will return the following day for another fish; if you give the poor man a fishing rod and the knowledge to use it then he'll eat for his entire life. Giving only food creates dependency which doesn't help much if it's not paired with other things.
I'd rather build schools and hospitals in some place where they're needed the most, then help build an infrastructure for transportation, farming, water extraction, energy production, etc. In other words give the fishing rod, not the fish. Giving self sufficiency to people makes them truly free and much harder to control by corrupt leaders.
I'm honest about myself and know I'm a selfish person and I'm likely gonna keep the money for myself and spend it on my wants and needs.
But I like to believe I have enough decency in me to not make things worse for others. Which is why I'll likely spend the rest of my days in luxurious seclusion somewhere if I had Musk's money.
Well given he's become a new guy and almost certainly pulling a There Will Be Blood and "converted" for financial reasons.
But we can mess with him even with a cross on, with enough media literacy.
He's a biblically accurate Cain or Qābīl for the Qur'an heads, before he did the murdering....he was really really cheap about everything including making an offering to appease his g*d, the story is very clear about how his offerings were only ever things he had no use for...in comparison to brother.... which seems to have been the actual point of the story....that he was Scrooge about everything.
The story is so much dumber when you read through it and realise just how petty the character was.....the dumb thing is he still got a partner out of it...he was just really salty for coming second to his brother.
The scientist in me see's the story as a distilled arch type of a kind of type of guy we've all met... So capable but just so salty even at the tiniest slight.
The kids trapped in the caves in Thailand should've been the tell....the submarine was made from SpaceX leftovers...the Cain of it all.
There is an irony here, I wish I had the literacy to follow through
I’m not questioning your life choices because if that’s what makes you happy and hurts no one else I fully support you.. that’s an oddly specific desire though I must say.
Your desire to do so explains why you don't have that much capital to begin with, though.
I think that "being that rich" is already proof that a person will act the way that rich people act, because you don't sit on a hoard of gold and treasures without first being the bastard dragon it takes to steal all of that wealth from others and centralize it into your own power to begin with.
So if you (or I for that matter, or any arbitrarily chosen redditor) "had all that money" then by what means would any of us prevent some other dragon from knocking us off of the hill to take it for themselves?
Simply maintaining control over that much wealth, or trying to move it or donate it or keep it to "live off the interest" or any of the things people talk about here is an exercise in sovereignty and blood feud that turns my stomach.
I think that any control over that much power would be a big enough albatross over any sane person's neck that even King Midas would point and laugh.
Eh, keeping wealth in the modern world is easy enough. The state protects your wealth for you, so you don't need to sell your soul in order to "prevent some other dragon from knocking us off of the hill".
However, after a certain point, focusing on acquiring more wealth turns into a bizarre decision. If you have any goals beyond money for the sake of money, then you will almost certainly focus on those goals instead by the time you've made your first 100 million or whatever. Those other goals might continue to make you money (depending on the details), but you probably aren't going to increase your net worth by 1000x and hit 100 billion.
At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, the late Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, the author Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch 22 over its whole history.
Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . Enough.”
It's John Bogle's retelling of Kurt Vonnegut's poem "Joe Heller" in the New Yorker.
I read an opinion piece in The Guardian earlier this year with a headline along the lines of "I always knew evil men would burn down the world, I just never expected them to be such losers". And I think that's pretty much spot on.
Dwyer wrote in The New York Times that none of the one thousand buildings on five continents that were built with Feeney's gifts of $2.7 billion bear his name
It really is that simple. If you have money, it’s relatively easy to make more. Sure, some get greedy and try to make a fuckton more, and lose it all, but in general, all you need to make money is a small loan of 1 million dollars from your pops.
Nothing excuses any of those fucks, but this is what happened ns when you have no one to call you on your bullshit or say no to you.
You become a little bitch at the first sign of resistance. And worse still, they know. Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg know fully what they're doing. They both don't care and have no one to point how how much of a little bitch they are.
Laws are laws, rules are rules and every country has its own laws and rules. The only difference in this case, this are laws and rules of a strong coalition of counties.
He obviously don’t like that.
He just acts like a spoiled child, who cannot get it he’s way.
That's how you get that much money. Wearing people down by being an absolute whiny bitch until they give in. Most billionaires seem to have that personality type.
As of November 2025, the change in his net worth is estimated to be around $473 billion to $500 billion, give or take. However, as of the end of the third quarter, his net worth had decreased by approximately $48.2 billion year to date, averaging about $191 million per day.
and yet has the gall to complain about a measly $120 Million fine, which right now would be the same as him just living normally for approx. 62,8% of a day.
For Musk's $470 Billion net worth to turn into $271.3 Billion, Musk could pay his current losses of 191 million per day and a daily fine of $120 million combined for 638 days. For reference, the average American Master, PhD, Doctor, etc. makes less than $5 Million.. in their entire life through job income.
X represents his aspirations: to wield power that can, at his word, undermine trillion dollar corporations, break powerful politicians, topple governments, undermine democracies.
That's the power he craves, and X gives him a pretty decent shot at wielding that kind of power - so he's more protective of it than of any of his 14 kids.
To put it into perspective this would be like if someone with a net worth of $10,000 got fined $200 by the state for something and had a meltdown over it. Not to mention Elon has access to practically infinite liquidity in the form of near-0% interest loans.
He's a shining example of how accumulation of massive wealth does not make someone happy. Maybe we wouldn't be encroaching on their ability to self actualize if we tax them more
I legit think he has an ego that rivals Trump's and thought that he was going to be able to control the country through him because he deserves to be in control. But is unable to properly play the game because of his ego.
Then you have the Zuckerberg types that just always seemed like miserable assholes, which just set them up to already have the negative personality traits that seem common among billionaires.
Yes, we would be doing them a favor. Rich men were happier in the 50s and 60s when taxes were high enough that they didn't get overpoweringly rich. They were still rich for sure. But that meant they lived in a mansion in the town their factory was in rather than being completely disconnected from the lives of ordinary people.
Yeah it'd be one thing if the all of the world's power was in the hands of people who have never ridden a bus or worked a real job, but these ultra rich people are terrified of the thought of having to interact with regular people.
It trips me out that he openly forces edits to his Grok AI whenever it says something he doesn't like. But I'm kind of thankful for that, because it will hopefully make people aware that total reliance on AI is a bad idea when the people that control it can curate a certain perception of the world.
When money buys you everything and anything. When life is not a struggle, the billionaires get bored and start thinking they know better. That they can shape the world better.
He doesn't actually care about the money (which X will be paying anyway). He wants to use X as his own (and for hire) propaganda network. If you look at it like then and have no morals then it makes sense to push back against every little thing, even if it's seems relatively small.
Because these people are not happy and will never be happy. This is the fucking tragedy, no one benefits from this. Most people can't make ends meet, and the 1% have empty lives without meaning.
He's a malignant narcissist. They think that every decision they make is genius, and anyone who disagrees with them or stands in their way is worse than stupid.
It's not about the money. Musk supports far-right politicians in the US, UK and EU. It would be easier to spread right-wing propaganda and get more fascists elected if the EU and its regulations didn't exist...
They should be at the very least properly regulating it and other social media, one unhinged billionaire should not be in charge of an algorithm that is being used to radicalize people
The world needs to do the same and include Facebook and Instagram. Antisocial media is the Pandora’s box we should not have opened. It’s become nothing but a tool for hate farming and predatory marketing.
We really need to make the super wealthy start taking mental health assessments and placing them under a conservatorship if they show signs of any serious personality disorders.
Can't agree more. I think the human mind is not equipped to handle that much money and influence, and has a very high chance of developing a disease afer too much power has been held for relatively long. We should tax billionaires into oblivion and limit their wealth, the same as we limit presidents to two terms.
He could have all the money in the world, and would still be a gigantic loser. He could literally do ANYTHING he wants and he spends his time fucking with politics and paying other people to play video games for him to look cool while he trolls around online. It's so pathetic and I would feel sad for him, but I don't, because he's such an asshole to everyone.
I don't understand how people willing to pay for a "I'm a super Nazi" checkmark next to their name requires any sort of authentication. I'll take them at their word.
We had a colleague at work who rarely spoke. We had a customer who was always finding a reason to complain and make up stuff to moan about. Management would bend over backwards to accommodate his unfounded claims. One lunch break a guy from another company popped by to ask ( informally) if the customer was ok to deal with. He asked " what's he like? ". The colleague who rarely spoke glanced up from behind his newspaper and simply said " Blokes a C*nt " and went back to reading his newspaper. Those three words perfectly sum up Musk's character.
Yeah. Like he did in Brazil. The man doesn’t have the fight and his overplayed his hand as an influential voice on with the dumb tech bros. He’s not destroying the EU. It’s literally near impossible now. They should take him on and expose him for what he is.
Here’s a better idea. Can’t the world just completely ignore twitter and move on? Why the the crab continue to drag us back into the bucket? Step on his face and get out already.
I’ll say this every time. He could do so much good with his money and be loved by the world. But he’d rather be a small minded petty loser and be hated.
I wonder if he addressed any of the actual issues about what the EU found him in violation for, in all of those posts. From what I read, all the fines come down to a lack of transparency.
And by the way, this is a guy who doesn't give a shit about free speech when a dictatorial regime is threatening to ban access to X in their country unless Musk gives them control over the visibility of posts by their political opponents. And Musk is silent about X not even being allowed in countries like China.
Time to block X within the EU. It’s 95% a vector for disinformation, Russian propaganda and right wing extremism anyway. It’s far more destructive than it is adding value.
The EU should simply pass a law that forces social media to list the location origin of each poster AND under penalty of fines list whether or not a poster is human or a bot. This alone will solve most of the concerns regarding the affect social media has on society.
Musk's real problem is that by imposing behavioural standards on 'X' the EU is possibly going to make 'X' economically unviable because it might heap a lot of extra costs on it in terms of everyday costs such as moderation. At that point Musk would really be in trouble.
Musk is gonna keep fucking around until he crosses the wrong line and some country is gonna put his ass in prison. Keep interfering in other countries elections and policies with that cheating, lying heavy handed crap and watch some country realize that he has to be stopped or it’s the end of that government. Put your enemies into a corner on deaths ground and you may just awaken a fighting spirit that’s been missing for quite awhile now. He’s overrated and it’s beginning to show, looks like his entire fortune is a house of cards. One strong breeze and it’ll fall into a pike of nothing
Wish sovereign nations would start banning his products. Get some backbone. This guy is bad news and very obviously trying to subvert society for his own fucked up narcissistic views.
One sovereign nation does ban his website (not targeting him specifically but rather the global internet) and this manchild conveniently keeps very quiet about it while constantly praising the same nation and using it as a manufacturing base.
Not the biggest fan of the EU but I hope they stand their ground against Elon and by extension America who are basically bullying everyone to get what they want.
If they push it ban Twitter. And Facebook. They're all shit now anyway
Pretty incredible that someone can be the world’s richest man and the world’s biggest loser at the same time.
If you think of it in the context that money is only a status symbol to those who have nothing else, ot makes perfect sense. It’s like Gollum going after the ring.
If i was anywhere near as rich as him id just be a recluse in a mansion filled with tons of femboy maids paid to pretend to love me. He doesn't have to be a grinch perpetually wanting more.
He's like (is) a drug addict who always wants another hit. His whole personality is his wealth. That's what I mean. People like him stop at nothing to protect the one defining quality, again like Gollum and his ring.
Okay but go quietly be a drug addict like the rest of us. Bro has enough money for 40 lifetimes of addiction to any drug
That would be about 50,000 lifetimes. Assuming he gave a $10M "start" to the oldest kid in every generation, his family could live for 3,650,000 years.
Just to visualize how much wealth he actually has (note: totally understand value / wealth / etc but lets just make this simple)
I’d give 90% of it away to charities. Think of the good you could do with that much money. Basically clear homelessness. Help vets. Pay huge swathes of medical debt.
It depends on the admin of it all (honestly I get bored of shit) but I'd probably just invest it all and give away the interest (or dividends or whatever else depending on method of investment).....there's an argument for setting up something long term vs a once off but also I haven't looked into it beyond the 2 minutes of reading your comment and typing this.
Either way I'd be doing other things than getting ego hurt every other day and ranting on twitter every hour.
I'm the worst "what would you do if you win the billion dollar lottery" player. Legitimately, give most of it away, I don't want all that money, I know what kind of money does to a human.
I might not be able to psychologically, because money corrupts. So it's a good thing that I don't play the lottery.
Yeah, I actually mapped this all out a while back because I read that most lottery winners blow it. The ticket I bought would have had a payout of around $3million annually after tax, and.... It was mostly boring. Some fun stuff, but it basically came down to, in order:
Doing all of that, and if I really, really pushed it HARD, I might be able to spend all 6 million in the first two years. Unlikely, but MAYBE possible.
After that I really run out of things that I want to spend that much money on. Sure, I could find ridiculous contrivances like diamond studded cookware to blow the money out if I really wanted to...... But nothing I actually want would be able to keep up with a sustained spending rate of more than $3 million a year
So after the first two years when I got my life in order, probably keep half a million, invest the other half a million, and donate the remaining 2 million.
I think the only thing that might prevent me from giving it to the nearest school or whatever is the idea that it could accrue money, and I could give that away every year. But yeah, I would need to pay someone that knew what the hell they were doing.
I have a house, would be nice to finish paying it off. Healthcare in my country is good, so nothing particularly urgent there. Public schools are good, so nothing education wise for kids. University isn't as ruinously expensive here compared to the US.
I'm sure I can think of cool luxury things to buy. A nice set of Lord of the Rings, with pretty bindings and lettering. Maybe some uni classes to formally learn (modern) Greek, like I'm trying to practice now. But they're things I can get right now, I just can't justify them with my current budget.
I'm sure I can think of a thousand things but... eh. I'm not sure how much they'd make me happier.
Mackenzie Scott?
With the money he has, he’d still be multi billionaire if the donated 90%, and could live in a castle filled with femboys that would truly love him. That’s enough money to buy love, and he still cannot do it.
Well you need a large organization to deploy the money in all those ways and that organization is going to take the lion's share of the money you're "giving away"
We should honestly start viewing the need of some people to accrue those kinds of resources solely for themselves and for no real reason beyond greed as a form of pychopathy.
We legit have the resources and tech needed to ensure everyone has food, clean water, a roof over their heads, and medical care while also allowing for personal growth. And I'm not just talking about the US, Europe, or China, the whole world could be uplifted.
So, basically like Bill Gates, and look how he's villified.
Nah, gates puts his money into a foundation and skirts our local tax US laws. He donates to npr and they write puff pieces aggrandizing him. He is smarter than musk though. He likes the good press about him, that he pays for, the safety of his life, and doesn't start shit.
Some of us are old enough to remember the Microsoft of the 80s and 90s
Bill Gates put the money into his own charity fund....which only legally needs to spend like a tiny fraction into actual charity things, rest can be spent on shit that benefits him. It's not the same, it's just a very common method of tax evasion in western countries that can generate good press. Look at how many very wealthy people own/run charity funds....it's not altruism, it's tax minimisation.
Same here, but I wouldn't give it to random charities: donating food is great but doesn't cure hunger in the long run. If you give a poor man a fish he's fed for a day but will return the following day for another fish; if you give the poor man a fishing rod and the knowledge to use it then he'll eat for his entire life. Giving only food creates dependency which doesn't help much if it's not paired with other things.
I'd rather build schools and hospitals in some place where they're needed the most, then help build an infrastructure for transportation, farming, water extraction, energy production, etc. In other words give the fishing rod, not the fish. Giving self sufficiency to people makes them truly free and much harder to control by corrupt leaders.
I'm honest about myself and know I'm a selfish person and I'm likely gonna keep the money for myself and spend it on my wants and needs.
But I like to believe I have enough decency in me to not make things worse for others. Which is why I'll likely spend the rest of my days in luxurious seclusion somewhere if I had Musk's money.
Well given he's become a new guy and almost certainly pulling a There Will Be Blood and "converted" for financial reasons.
But we can mess with him even with a cross on, with enough media literacy.
He's a biblically accurate Cain or Qābīl for the Qur'an heads, before he did the murdering....he was really really cheap about everything including making an offering to appease his g*d, the story is very clear about how his offerings were only ever things he had no use for...in comparison to brother.... which seems to have been the actual point of the story....that he was Scrooge about everything.
The story is so much dumber when you read through it and realise just how petty the character was.....the dumb thing is he still got a partner out of it...he was just really salty for coming second to his brother.
The scientist in me see's the story as a distilled arch type of a kind of type of guy we've all met... So capable but just so salty even at the tiniest slight.
The kids trapped in the caves in Thailand should've been the tell....the submarine was made from SpaceX leftovers...the Cain of it all.
There is an irony here, I wish I had the literacy to follow through
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You could do this and STILL have enough for the femboy mansion.
You don’t become that rich with good morals.
As for me I’d buy dead IPs and then revive them.
Which level femboy we're talking here?
I'm not sure I understand the question but I'm talking full kneesocks, handwarmers, nair cream and a maid costume.
Masks?
Is the costume latex? With cutouts?
I’m not questioning your life choices because if that’s what makes you happy and hurts no one else I fully support you.. that’s an oddly specific desire though I must say.
Godspeed though in all sincerity.
Your desire to do so explains why you don't have that much capital to begin with, though.
I think that "being that rich" is already proof that a person will act the way that rich people act, because you don't sit on a hoard of gold and treasures without first being the bastard dragon it takes to steal all of that wealth from others and centralize it into your own power to begin with.
So if you (or I for that matter, or any arbitrarily chosen redditor) "had all that money" then by what means would any of us prevent some other dragon from knocking us off of the hill to take it for themselves?
Simply maintaining control over that much wealth, or trying to move it or donate it or keep it to "live off the interest" or any of the things people talk about here is an exercise in sovereignty and blood feud that turns my stomach.
I think that any control over that much power would be a big enough albatross over any sane person's neck that even King Midas would point and laugh.
Eh, keeping wealth in the modern world is easy enough. The state protects your wealth for you, so you don't need to sell your soul in order to "prevent some other dragon from knocking us off of the hill".
However, after a certain point, focusing on acquiring more wealth turns into a bizarre decision. If you have any goals beyond money for the sake of money, then you will almost certainly focus on those goals instead by the time you've made your first 100 million or whatever. Those other goals might continue to make you money (depending on the details), but you probably aren't going to increase your net worth by 1000x and hit 100 billion.
I always think of this story:
It's John Bogle's retelling of Kurt Vonnegut's poem "Joe Heller" in the New Yorker.
Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
Gollum had a personality or two though.
I’d argue, so does Elon lol.
Him being like Gollum is the best analogy I’ve read so far. He has all the power he needs in the world, he is bitter, sad, and nobody loves him.
I read an opinion piece in The Guardian earlier this year with a headline along the lines of "I always knew evil men would burn down the world, I just never expected them to be such losers". And I think that's pretty much spot on.
How can somebody become so rich, but still be totally stupid.
Because making money doesn't require being smart.
Making money requires having money.
In fairly certain that sociopathy isn't optional.
It absolutely is optional.
Here is one.
I especially like this bit:
A great man.
It really is that simple. If you have money, it’s relatively easy to make more. Sure, some get greedy and try to make a fuckton more, and lose it all, but in general, all you need to make money is a small loan of 1 million dollars from your pops.
Or in Elon's case, Government loans. None of his companies would be profitable without government money keeping them afloat.
Hubris syndrome I think
hey there’s competition for biggest loser
Money and personality aren't the same thing.
He doesn't seem to have figured that out yet.
That's just what happens when you're the most intensely divorced guy in human history.
Mental illness is a hell of a disease. Dude for sure has some loose crews.
No better proof that money cannot buy happiness or rizz.
He is the most divorced man ever. Not having the most divorces, but sheer divorced energy.
Right wing snow flake.
You mean world's richest man and biggest sore loser?
If you factor in his leveraged debt, he's probably the world's poorest man
Nothing excuses any of those fucks, but this is what happened ns when you have no one to call you on your bullshit or say no to you.
You become a little bitch at the first sign of resistance. And worse still, they know. Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg know fully what they're doing. They both don't care and have no one to point how how much of a little bitch they are.
Made up money doesn't count
Money cant buy class and it shows in great abundance with this idiot
He’s just wining.
The fine isn’t even that relevant for X.
Laws are laws, rules are rules and every country has its own laws and rules. The only difference in this case, this are laws and rules of a strong coalition of counties.
He obviously don’t like that.
He just acts like a spoiled child, who cannot get it he’s way.
Genuinely how can you be such a whiny bitch when you have more money than everyone else on the planet?
That's how you get that much money. Wearing people down by being an absolute whiny bitch until they give in. Most billionaires seem to have that personality type.
Also known as a personality disorder and mentally unwell.
I’m going to call it “Midas syndrome”
I will invent a new disorder: hitlerism.
only if we change the entire Midas mythology so whenever he touches anything it turns to shit.
The entire fine is .02% of his net worth. A fucking dragon hoarding its gold.
from a very recent December 5th Yahoo Finance report about Musk
Musk
bleeds $191 million per day (mainly due to his own antics inhibiting the growth of Tesla)
has still the greatest net worth of any person on this planet (Musk $470 Billion vs the #2, Oracle Founder & CTO Larry Ellison $271.3 Billion
and yet has the gall to complain about a measly $120 Million fine, which right now would be the same as him just living normally for approx. 62,8% of a day.
For Musk's $470 Billion net worth to turn into $271.3 Billion, Musk could pay his current losses of 191 million per day and a daily fine of $120 million combined for 638 days. For reference, the average American Master, PhD, Doctor, etc. makes less than $5 Million.. in their entire life through job income.
The fine is small but it threatens his billion dollar misinformation machine: X
X represents his aspirations: to wield power that can, at his word, undermine trillion dollar corporations, break powerful politicians, topple governments, undermine democracies.
That's the power he craves, and X gives him a pretty decent shot at wielding that kind of power - so he's more protective of it than of any of his 14 kids.
Stated differently, .0002 of his wealth. What a miserable waste.
To put it into perspective this would be like if someone with a net worth of $10,000 got fined $200 by the state for something and had a meltdown over it. Not to mention Elon has access to practically infinite liquidity in the form of near-0% interest loans.
He's a shining example of how accumulation of massive wealth does not make someone happy. Maybe we wouldn't be encroaching on their ability to self actualize if we tax them more
I legit think he has an ego that rivals Trump's and thought that he was going to be able to control the country through him because he deserves to be in control. But is unable to properly play the game because of his ego.
So true - look what JK Rowling turned into.
Then you have the Zuckerberg types that just always seemed like miserable assholes, which just set them up to already have the negative personality traits that seem common among billionaires.
Notch, the creator of Minecraft who sold it for like 4 billion, is another shining example.
Yes, we would be doing them a favor. Rich men were happier in the 50s and 60s when taxes were high enough that they didn't get overpoweringly rich. They were still rich for sure. But that meant they lived in a mansion in the town their factory was in rather than being completely disconnected from the lives of ordinary people.
Yeah it'd be one thing if the all of the world's power was in the hands of people who have never ridden a bus or worked a real job, but these ultra rich people are terrified of the thought of having to interact with regular people.
misanthropists are not meant to be leaders
Turns out all the money in the world can't fix his small cock syndrome
Apparently it's mangled because of a botched enlargement attempt. Or so the rumors say.
It's why every kid he has had has been conceived through IVF. His mangled cock doesn't work.
It trips me out that he openly forces edits to his Grok AI whenever it says something he doesn't like. But I'm kind of thankful for that, because it will hopefully make people aware that total reliance on AI is a bad idea when the people that control it can curate a certain perception of the world.
People are not realizing that. Grok has a reputation for being "the final word" on truth among most people.
Yes it's dumb.
Yes most people are dumb.
When money buys you everything and anything. When life is not a struggle, the billionaires get bored and start thinking they know better. That they can shape the world better.
He doesn't actually care about the money (which X will be paying anyway). He wants to use X as his own (and for hire) propaganda network. If you look at it like then and have no morals then it makes sense to push back against every little thing, even if it's seems relatively small.
Because these people are not happy and will never be happy. This is the fucking tragedy, no one benefits from this. Most people can't make ends meet, and the 1% have empty lives without meaning.
He's a malignant narcissist. They think that every decision they make is genius, and anyone who disagrees with them or stands in their way is worse than stupid.
It's not about the money. Musk supports far-right politicians in the US, UK and EU. It would be easier to spread right-wing propaganda and get more fascists elected if the EU and its regulations didn't exist...
It’s about power. He will attack anyone who dare to question him.
The EU should ban X and fund some domestic alternatives to X
To be honest EU should be doing that with pretty much everything
They should be at the very least properly regulating it and other social media, one unhinged billionaire should not be in charge of an algorithm that is being used to radicalize people
Very well put
The EU should fund open-source and help people who know and love what they do do what they do best
The EU elite is the USA elite
Unfortunately true and we also should from politicians who love Israel and Russia more than their own nations.
The global elite are the global elite, all interconnected. Their greed and wealth transcends borders.
Lemmy. You are welcome.
50k daily users now.
https://join-lemmy.org/
Mastodon is the open source twitter alternative. Blue sky is another alternative.
I feel like I'm missing something but you linked a website which looks and works like Reddit. How is that an alternative for Twitter?
The alternative to X should be Y.
It would be funny, but Y would unfortunately be an absolute awful brand name, just like X.
The world needs to do the same and include Facebook and Instagram. Antisocial media is the Pandora’s box we should not have opened. It’s become nothing but a tool for hate farming and predatory marketing.
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Who doesn't hate a Nazi
Stop using Twitter. It's that simple
The only people left on twitter are jerk offs. Everyone left ages ago. 90% of it's "content" is bots.
Please do everyone a favor and take too much ketamine already
I think the heading should be;
Elon Musk threw a tantrum over the weekend.
he got fined and his companies are tanking in Europe. With the comments he made I feel less safe as a human. I hope he continues to tank.
What a little bitch he is.
It makes me happy that Elon is mad. Please IP lock Europe from X so I never have to hear about it again.
Some billionaires have wallets the size of a nation and emotional maturity the size of a juice box
“A Spartan once said: Look at how much they have… and yet they still came to rob us.
Funny how abundance never stops greed.”
“Someone said No to me. I hate it when people say No to me. I’m gonna have a tantrum now. WAAAAAAAAH.”
EU should just ban twitter. Hell, the world should ban twitter.
We should just ban X in Europe, case closed.
We really need to make the super wealthy start taking mental health assessments and placing them under a conservatorship if they show signs of any serious personality disorders.
Let's just tax them enough so they can't make their problems into society's problems. We shouldn't have to live by on the edge of fickle whims.
Can't agree more. I think the human mind is not equipped to handle that much money and influence, and has a very high chance of developing a disease afer too much power has been held for relatively long. We should tax billionaires into oblivion and limit their wealth, the same as we limit presidents to two terms.
Trying to buy Europe to protect free speech incoming in 3 .. 2 .. 1 ah damn rocket exploded on the launch pad.
EU, please go ahead and do anything you want to destoy X.
Thanks!
This is one of the big issues of capitalism: it entitles any worthless human being to have a globally reaching opinion, as long as he / she has money.
He could have all the money in the world, and would still be a gigantic loser. He could literally do ANYTHING he wants and he spends his time fucking with politics and paying other people to play video games for him to look cool while he trolls around online. It's so pathetic and I would feel sad for him, but I don't, because he's such an asshole to everyone.
Him and his platform are like a cancerous growth. Every poke it just gets bigger and seeps more poison.
Imagine having all that money, and this is what he does.
Richest man in the world, folks. This is literally the person with the most money on planet earth.
What a little bitch.
The billionaire who takes everything personally.
Does anybody know some more of Musk Filter, so I never have to see this man's stupid face all the time?
I don't understand how people willing to pay for a "I'm a super Nazi" checkmark next to their name requires any sort of authentication. I'll take them at their word.
We had a colleague at work who rarely spoke. We had a customer who was always finding a reason to complain and make up stuff to moan about. Management would bend over backwards to accommodate his unfounded claims. One lunch break a guy from another company popped by to ask ( informally) if the customer was ok to deal with. He asked " what's he like? ". The colleague who rarely spoke glanced up from behind his newspaper and simply said " Blokes a C*nt " and went back to reading his newspaper. Those three words perfectly sum up Musk's character.
Yeah. Like he did in Brazil. The man doesn’t have the fight and his overplayed his hand as an influential voice on with the dumb tech bros. He’s not destroying the EU. It’s literally near impossible now. They should take him on and expose him for what he is.
Here’s a better idea. Can’t the world just completely ignore twitter and move on? Why the the crab continue to drag us back into the bucket? Step on his face and get out already.
I’ll say this every time. He could do so much good with his money and be loved by the world. But he’d rather be a small minded petty loser and be hated.
What if with all his resources he did something to help humanity?
Wait what if he didn't have ALL the resources and they were spread out so more people could help humanity???
Wow what a crazy world that would be, wait actually it would be a much much better world.
Thank you for saying this. He would be the most popular person on the planet and revered in our world’s history.
But he’s too shortsighted to see that.
What a bell end.
Prove me wrong Elon, send me a million and I'll think you're cool.
I'll tell all my friends!
Why the fuck does the EU allow this shite to still operate inside its borders? Ban X now.
I wonder if he addressed any of the actual issues about what the EU found him in violation for, in all of those posts. From what I read, all the fines come down to a lack of transparency.
And by the way, this is a guy who doesn't give a shit about free speech when a dictatorial regime is threatening to ban access to X in their country unless Musk gives them control over the visibility of posts by their political opponents. And Musk is silent about X not even being allowed in countries like China.
He's just sore his money can't buy everything and everyone.
I'd love the EU to declare him a terrorist and block all his shit. It's about time someone smacked this fascist psycho back into reality.
he’s such a fucking loser
The EU ought to ban twitter/X for the foreign influence and propaganda network that it is.
Having Medvedev unironically agree with him is in the top 5 most pathetic things Musk has done.
Elon mad the EU won’t let him spew propaganda. Wish America protected its citizens the same way.
He’s so ugly. And I know he’s reading this.
Petty loser
Third world country who pretending themselves first world country need to give much higher tax to billionaire wealth.
Time to block X within the EU. It’s 95% a vector for disinformation, Russian propaganda and right wing extremism anyway. It’s far more destructive than it is adding value.
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Funnily enough Musks Fanclub went on to threads to do the same thing.
A toddler throwing a tantrum.
This guy has all that money and is still so miserable haha what a loser. No wonder he was almost bullied to death.
He has all the money in the world, can do anything you could ever imagine, yet spends most of his days on Twitter being a hateful troll
Proof that money does not buy class
Double the fine. And double it again every time he tweets.
The EU should simply pass a law that forces social media to list the location origin of each poster AND under penalty of fines list whether or not a poster is human or a bot. This alone will solve most of the concerns regarding the affect social media has on society.
Not ‘deceptive’ but definitely deceptive
Can he just please fuck off.
Shitter should be banned in the EU.
Fuck that dork.
hey here's a fucking thought. How about we don't let anyone own all the fucking things in this world? i dunno, just a thought.
Musk's real problem is that by imposing behavioural standards on 'X' the EU is possibly going to make 'X' economically unviable because it might heap a lot of extra costs on it in terms of everyday costs such as moderation. At that point Musk would really be in trouble.
IF you can't make money legally, you're not profitable.
Musk is gonna keep fucking around until he crosses the wrong line and some country is gonna put his ass in prison. Keep interfering in other countries elections and policies with that cheating, lying heavy handed crap and watch some country realize that he has to be stopped or it’s the end of that government. Put your enemies into a corner on deaths ground and you may just awaken a fighting spirit that’s been missing for quite awhile now. He’s overrated and it’s beginning to show, looks like his entire fortune is a house of cards. One strong breeze and it’ll fall into a pike of nothing
Its interesting how money makes ordinary people think theyre superior.
Imagine a world where billionaires just shut the fuck up
Wish sovereign nations would start banning his products. Get some backbone. This guy is bad news and very obviously trying to subvert society for his own fucked up narcissistic views.
One sovereign nation does ban his website (not targeting him specifically but rather the global internet) and this manchild conveniently keeps very quiet about it while constantly praising the same nation and using it as a manufacturing base.
X is banned in Russia and China, and Musk loves the shit out of Russia.
EU not gonna take the cash and look away like the US?
"shut up, piggy"
How can you can be that rich and successful and still be a whiny bitch and so uncool that if you where being ironic it would be kinda cool
He's made more in passive interest over that same time.
Easier to blackmail single small countries than a united EU. Makes total sense.
Elon Musk, the civilizational cancer, strikes again. Ban the pathetic loser already.
You mean the same guy who marketed “Autopilot” that isn’t really an autopilot? Or who marketed “Full Self Driving” that wasn’t full by any measure?
Surely that’s not the guy, right?
They are deceptive I asked a couple of verified people there are no checks they just take the money and enable it.
I'd say I love making this dude mad, but every time I do he spends stupid amounts of money on making life harder for everyone.
Insane that a single person has amassed enough wealth and power to go after a whole ass continent (and the richest one to boot).
Insane.
Like the EU didn’t have bigger problems…
This dude is still alive ?
Guess he's gotta refill his Ketamine stash again after all this ranting.
Not the biggest fan of the EU but I hope they stand their ground against Elon and by extension America who are basically bullying everyone to get what they want.
If they push it ban Twitter. And Facebook. They're all shit now anyway
ITT people begging for closed off Chinese style Internet without realizing it. Eurobros don't like their rights.
The US has largely been the best evidence for how destructive well funded disinformation campaigns can be.