Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share.

People who use the word "fren" need to be brutally killed via trained attack badgers.

Let him earn his spending money. He can get a paper route.

Of the ass?

How ghastly!

Unless...

Lack of capital doesn’t make one “poor”.

Cavemen didn’t have capital.

And taxes. What are those taxes going to do?

Well it does in the “i can’t afford anything” sense
But yes you can be rich in terms of the company you keep for example

Nor did they have very good life expectancies and probably ate their own shit. I’m not sure why you feel this is a good example

Sorry, am i supposed to explain to you how taxes work here?

No, it doesn't. Nor would the inability to become a billionaire, as you also claimed.

Are you failing to understand what capital is?

Huh. So there really is an Adrian Dittmann. I've got to say, though, having heard Dittmann speak he sounds exactly like Musk does. Makes me wonder if Musk pretends to be Dittmann at times.

I'm not sure which is more embarrassing. Having a sock puppet that you use to insist that you get lots of sex ... or being that big a simp.

That's close enough to say it's a goatee.

Is anything happening in the next couple of weeks that means Musk might suddenly want to reduce criticism of the people in charge of things?

Welcome the Face-Eating Leopard party, Elon.

Well...
Kids that like me.
A wife.
Self-respect.
Edit: Oh, and a Back to the Future 2 poster signed and personalized by the cast.

Yeah, he could buy his own, but I'll bet none of them would personally sign it for him.

Gonna guess that's fake, if only because Grimes and Musk were never married.

You got Trump's autograph? Damn. That must be worth a pretty penny!

Okay, so here's something I genuinely dint understand about Elon Musk, and really every other billionaire out there.
If I had that kind of cash, I'd truly have a hard time not just giving it away every time I saw someone in need. Like, the old lady across the street from me needs a new AC unit? Here, let me buy it for you. I see a homeless guy with no legs sitting on the sidewalk? Have $500,00. Local Humane Society needs donations? Here's $2 million.
I just don't get how these people can literally see in person someone struggling and not immediately want to fix it. And I'm not even talking about big charitable donations. I'm saying, just giving someone the money they need when you meet someone in need. I don’t get how they can resist doing that.

Unfortunately, outside of winning a big lottery (and even then, I don’t know), the kind of mindset it requires to build such a fortune probably means you’re a bit of a sociopath. That, or you just get so sick of people asking for help that your soul shrivels and you just become a miserly bastard.

Weirdly enough, the people I know with money are the most cheap and unlikely to part with their money for any reason. I feel like the main purpose of money is to spend it; but for a lot of people, I guess the object is to just continue acquiring more of it. For what, I don’t know.

To beat the other rich people in a big video game.
Which is how they can callously see the poor as loser noobs still killing imps.

As DEI said, they are all sociopaths. You kind of have to be one to even amass that much money.

I wouldn’t consider myself rich but I do well. I have donated a lot and given money to friends who were struggling.

I guess I could have kept all that for myself and had a higher net worth but to what end?

Yes, it does feel nice to see your financial accounts go up. But it also feels nice to help folks out when they need it.

I don’t think most people really grasp what a billion dollars is.

They think it is just ‘a lot of millions’.

A billion is ONE THOUSAND millions.

If you were to make a million dollars a month, every month since you were born, and put all of it in a savings account you would be 83 years old by the time you were a billionaire.

To get to Elon’s level of net worth you’d need a time machine to take you back TO THE FUCKING PALEOLITHIC. You would need to go back 34,408 years in the past and bank a million dollars a month to get to Elon’s level of wealth.

That was a point my Econ teacher in high school tried to make to us early on.
It's really hard for people to wrap their heads around that kind of money.
Which is a big part of why a petulant manchild like Musk having so much is so scary. I'm a lot less actually fearful of, say, Bezos because he sends much more stable. I still despite Bezos, but I'm not worried he'll tear down the world (purposely or otherwise).

Years back, when Bill Gates and Warren Buffett were promoting the Giving Pledge, I did a decent amount of reading up on billionaires.

It’s incredibly sad how averse they become to any sort of taxation on their wealth. What people don’t realize is that mega banks cultivate relationships with billionaires to give them low interest securities-backed loans to fund their lifestyles. That which isn’t comped by their companies gets rolled into the securities-backed loans.

Ayup. Trump was only still a multi-millionaire before 2016 because banks kept giving him credit even when it was fucking obvious he's a grifter and a failed businessman. Because folk with that amount of debt are worth keeping on the hook even if they can't pay back the loans as fast as the bank might prefer.

The billionaire point Anc makes is true - someone at TBBS posted about the top FTSE100 CEOs making more money by noon today (third working day of 2025) than the average worker in the UK will make all year, but another poster then pointed out that Musk etc make £4.2M per HOUR (the amount the average CEO on that list makes per year).

I think it was Bill Gates who said that after a certain point, calculating one's wealth was just a way of keeping score. Part of the problem with giving money away is that it's not as easy at it sounds and large donations can sometimes actually do more harm than good. Give a couple of million to the local animal shelter and they may not have any expertise for dealing with it, so they have to hire someone to manage it for them and then their overhead goes up and they could become less efficient in how they spend their money. There's also the temptation of corruption. For the donor, the problem is that it's very hard to stay anonymous and you risk having every grifter, loser and con-artist parking on your front door step. I do know of one West Virginia guy who hit a big lottery jackpot sometime in the late 90s or early 00's who's managed to strike a pretty good balance. He's well-known in his area and on a number of occasions he's stepped up to pay for things like a civic center that help the community and they don't come to him too often. But that's the exception.
J. Paul Getty left his billion$ to the Getty Museum, which made them the 800 pound gorilla in the art world. The Wikipedia article on the Getty Trust illustrates some of what I'm talking about.

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