Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

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[–] 5 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

Could Elon buy them? Does he have that much wealth power?

EDIT: to be clear, it’s not that I want him to.‘it’s just frightening that it even sounds plausible enough to question in ignorance

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Nah. He can’t buy Apple (market cap $3.8T), or Google ($3.96T). He’s not a trillionaire yet.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    To put it into perspective, if he managed to sell all of his ownerships of companies for the most optimistic idea of his current net worth*, he could still buy less than 19% of Apple.

    He’d need several friends to chip in to even get to 50%. A trillion is a lot until inflation gets out of hand.

    * $717 billion; probably $100 billion too high at least.

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