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[–] 133 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Nothing. If you were born in 1AD and earned 1,000,000 every single day without spending a single penny you still would not be a trillionaire today. He will never spend that wealth , he will use that money to get loans that he does not owe taxes on, using that money to acquire even more capital. He has stated his goal is 10 trillion. At no point along the way will he use his wealth or influence to directly improve any common person's life. He is a cancer on our planet, on our economy, and on our civilization.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    Its only been 738,715 days since 1/1/0001 so this checks

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

    My calculations make it 739,802

    Baseline: 2025 * 365 = 739,125

    Leap years: Floor(2025 / 4) = 506 - floor(2025 / 100) = 486 + floor(2025 / 400) = 491 (every 4th year except every 100th year with the exception of every 400th year)

    1st of Jan 2026 to 5th of July 2026: 186

    Total: 739,125 + 491 + 186 = 739,802

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Why not just do 2025×365.2425 + 186?

    Also note: the Gregorian calendar was not in use yet at the start of this, so that might throw off all your calculations

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I wanted to show the full calculation, but that one works too.

    And yes, you could do some more math to account for the 10 day drift the Julian calendar introduced but historians mostly use the proleptic Gregorian calendar which removes this for ease of use to better count orbits. If you want the actual sunrises since 1/1/0001 it should be enough to just add back 10 days.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Wait so you're telling me 2000 was not a leap year? But 2200 will be?

    I was too young to really pay attention that year.

    That's interesting about the proleptic calendar and stuff.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Did you account for the switch from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar?

    Don't worry if you didn't, this has tripped up a number of apocalyptic religious cults as well, they had to rewrite their time tables to Doomsday when somebody pointed it out to them.

    But yeah, basically, 10 days got wiped out of conceptual existence in the uh, great time refactor of 1582. ... and more confusingly, it wasn't like, globally adopted at the same time, so, sometimes, in some places, adoption resulted in the nullification of 11, 12, or 13 days.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    I hate that we've had to change this calculation from a billionaire to a trillionaire. Both are fucking disgusting numbers.

    Also, I swear to God if anyone mentions compound interest I'm gonna strap you to one of Elon's exploding rockets.

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    He's going to spend it paying top esports players to play games pretending to be him.
    Elon is finally going to be the champion in all videogames.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    No, I am the video game boy! I'm the one who wins!

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

    Money isn’t the endgame. It’s power. He wants to own the world and have all the people inside of it report to him.

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

    "Now what?" Is apparently helping to turn the United States in to Nazi Germany for "teh lolz"

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

    Now he accumulates more wealth, there is no end to capitalist accumulation.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    No amount of money in the world will make him a better PoE2 player

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    He's a parasite, he will continue to feed on us until nothing is left. Maybe kill some more kids for fun because it's the only way he feels anything.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    He won capitalism. He should start a new game on a harder difficulty.

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

    It's like asking a hoarder what they plan to do with all of those .

    It's a mental illness but instead of recognizing it as such, calling it out and getting them treatment, society celebrates them and says they are doing everything that everybody else should strive for.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    because society is jealous. they wish they could be him.

    they aren't jealous of a horder. they think that person is sad and gross.

    I have family member who have a net worth of over 50million, all they talk about is how poor they are, how they can't afford anything, how everything is so unfair to them... etc. They believe they are struggling working-class people. They adore Elon and think he's a genius and they wish they could be as rich as him and they think if they were all their 'struggles' would be solved... they especially love the idea of never paying any taxes, because they think taxes are theft from themselves to 'waste' on poor lazy piece of shit who refuse to 'grow up' and go get 250k/yr jobs.

    and there are lots and lots of rich people like my family who think the same way... and who think because they donate like a pittance of their money each year they are morally perfect human beings.

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

    Umm actually, people keep saying he's a trillionaire, that's not technically true.

    He wasn't even if SpaceX was at its peak valuation. It was unrealized, floating on an actual liquidity of like 100 billion.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Make everyone else as misrable as him it appears.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Dog catches car.

    Is dissapointed.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Elon: “More.”

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    If I remember right, Musk made a comment on this that was around "Once you get enough money, you stop seeing it as money and more like a high score."

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, a lot of rich folks said it's been about one-upping each other.

    Mark Cuban was asked if he wants to increase his net worth. He responded that he's busy managing the Dallas Maverick's. But that interview seems to insinuate that there is an expectation amongst the wealthy to just keep accumulating wealth. Literally like a cancer that keeps growing.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    He should explore the afterlife.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    He will continue to make our lives harder of course.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    He'll probably just continue working to diminish democracy across the planet and leave a legacy of hate and ignorance instead of using his wealth to leave a positive legacy, which would be easy as fuck since he'd basically just be paying others to do good things in his name and taking the credit.

    Not a smart man.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Ill tell you what he's NOT going to: anything to improve anyone's life but his own.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    That money is trying to fill a hole in his soul of infinite deapth.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    He is definitely not the first trillionair or the richest man. he is the first publicly recorded trillionair / richest man. Most keep the vast majority they have secret as fuck.

    Most of that money is in Tesla stock so not much can be done with it. Maybe take out 10% to 30% of its value as a loan from banks with the stock as collateral then mostly buy some shit that will ideally appreciate in value. It's not liquid wealth so there isn't much you can do with it. $1B liquid would be far more valuable than $1T in stock evaluations.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Yep. Musk might be rich but he's not as influential as he tries to be. He's actually kind of pathetic in that respect, gets eaten up by the media and looks like a complete tool.

    He tried so hard to be in the neo Nazi inner circle but he's just a rich wannabe in every fucking regard.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Kinda unfortunate honestly. If he just chilled without getting into politics and just worked on electric cars, boring machines, battery factories, rockets, and satellite internet probably would be a much more beloved figure. The whole twitter and political involvement / rigging is definitely a downhill move.

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

    He got into politics because he saw the balance sheets at the companies he’s running.

    His businesses desperately needed government backing and he saw an opportunity to buy himself into the most corrupt administration ever.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    Probably accurate although the demand for electric vehicles and hybrids isn't going anywhere and most definitely the demand for batteries isn't going anywhere. Cheap boring and rockets are definitely more niche. Low earth orbit satellite internet has been massive in less developed countries with underdeveloped infrastructure. Maybe if we had something super valuable to mine on the moon or on an asteroid we lassoed into orbit. In short probably could have played the field like most tech companies do and been fine. Check out all the AI companies not going full alt right yet doing alright with massive operating costs to revenue.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    When you reach your peak, it's time to die.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    At these numbers it becomes meaningless, like infinity+1. All we know is that he can get whatever he wants.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Next up is quadrillionaire, of course!

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    Imagine having all that and still being a worthless gross PoS. Lol I would be the worst philanthropist you ever seen--- meaning I'd be giving money to good stuff like food and climate and eduction while simultaneously making life a living hell for anyone who votes against that stuff. I'm talking hiring people to nonstop hate on those types till they quit social media. Give me your money so I can buy the US Senate; we getting shit won.

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

    He'll probably ask to toucuh kids on epstein island again after becoming a trillionare, and he'll probably be rejected again

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

    I bet that loser asks this to Grok AI lol

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Hackers could do something hilarious

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    He should be invited onwards.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    he was briefly worth $1T on paper. Then SpaceX go poof.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    nothing.

    you don't do anything with that kind of money. you just have it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    You leave a dynasty of offspring that never have to work a day in their lives and turn out to be shit humans who use their inherited wealth to buy politicians and degrade the quality of life for average people for generations.

    Seriously though. America's ultra wealthy are going to have generations of ultra wealthy born rich cunts that continue fucking our shit up.

    Tax them out of existence.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    My only doubt about this is: are people calling him a trillionaire USA style? I mean, they normally don't use milliards. They just jump from millions to billions. So it would make him a billionaire to all of us more "civilized" people, wouldn't it?

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

    This is not a simple US vs rest of the world distinction. Long scale and short scale are both used in multiple countries and multiple languages. My own country uses short scale but with billion replaced by milliard so it goes miljon, miljard, triljon, kvadriljon. Then India has lakh (1,00,000) and crore (1,00,00,000). No, the two zeroes between commas weren't a mistake.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I want to make clear that I'm not shitting on USA. But I'm genuinely curious about how are they making the calculations. I understand what you mean, but it doesn't really answer my question. Either way, be it milliards, billions or trillions, we average Joes and Janes are royally and disgustingly fucked...

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Don't you see? if he has enough money then Grimes will love him again! It's not pathetic, you're pathetic!

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