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

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      No money for social programs though, of course infrastructure, medical care and education has no role in helping him accumulate wealth, no sir.

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    It’s like asking a hoarder what they plan to do with all of those <insert item here>.

    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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      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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    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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    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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    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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    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.