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[-] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

On Elon Musk, it's funny because he never put a profit, like tesla isn't the biggest, spacex neither, X is draining money, his robotics shits are just that: shit.

There isn't much that he's done, all of his companies are making less profits (or losing more money if i'm being correct), he is just a jake paul that fakes being a fake intelligent person.

Edit: Deleted my edit, i'm drunk

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, its ironic. The richest man in the world doesn't have a single* truly profit-making venture under him.

How the bubble around him hasn't burst yet I don't know, but it would certainly be a feast for sore eyes.

*Edit: Forgot about SpaceX, which actually has made itself a decent chunk of money - about $15.5 billion in 2025 - but I doubt that alone is capable of propping up his nearly $500 billion personal valuation.

[-] asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

How the bubble around him hasn’t burst yet I don’t know

Corporate welfare.

[-] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

SpaceX has been phenomenally successful. I don't think he can be attributed to much of that success. The Falcon 9 handled 95% of launches in 2024. SpaceX has went from non existant to a near monopoly in 23 years while competing against some of the most powerfully connected companies in the world.

I'm not a SpaceX fanboy (I'm a space fanboy). They have done a lot of good for the space industry, while also causing a lot of harm to the scientific space community (earth based observations). I just don't think you can make an argument that SpaceX is not a successful company.

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[-] bottleofchips@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

Go home drunk, I’m too Dad

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Three bullets could do so much for this country

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[-] minorkeys@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Eat the rich.

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

The weird thing is that these people don't think they're rich enough and want to extract more money from government and the people, and they simultaneously think that the government gives too much money to poor people.

[-] DirtPuddleMisfortune@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

They race to who will be the first trillionaire. It's disgusting. Meanwhile children are starving.

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[-] BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

Vote out every single Republican or whatever right-wing/far-right party you have in your country. Shift the Overton window each time a seat gets flipped.

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[-] gezginorman@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

money is a meaningless construct. Eat the rich.

[-] huppakee@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, when I read this statistic the other day I took it as 'the bottom half has less then the 3 richest persons', but in fact, it is 'three people each have more than the bottom half' holy shit.

[-] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago
[-] yggstyle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

The french really did have a solid way of reminding the upper crust that they were vastly outnumbered by the people they were standing upon...

Remind me. Why are the worlds billionaires all building bunkers? A true mystery.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

At first I thought it was combined. Not "individually each." And not by twice.

[-] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Any place that allows this to happen is a bad place.

[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

It never trickles down.

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 3 weeks ago

Every time I see these guys’ faces I cringe so hard. It’s frankly embarrassing working in the tech industry when most people think of them at the very mention of it.

[-] ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

We can of course fix this…just look at French history…

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[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

[-] CtrlAltDefeat@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Now, I might be misreading this data, but from what it looks like either one of these billionaires by themselves have more wealth than the bottom 50% of Americans, right?

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, this is phrased like those three just slightly edge out the bottom 50, as opposed to each individually owning significantly greater than the bottom 50. I'm going to assume these three own more than the "bottom" like 85%.

[-] SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

More like one Billionaire own 5.6 times the wealth of the bottom 50%

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The only way it trickles down is the way Charlie Kirk showed us

[-] foggianism@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

"own more" is putting it lightly, they literally own 10 times more than bottom 170 mil people combined

[-] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

and they couldn't just be happy being that rich. They got bored and decided to kill us all. They need to be rounded up and put on trial. Why are people so afraid of rich people ~ Luigi

[-] roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

USA at again, isn't it? The country with trillion debt, that's about to blow.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It has always been a thing with America. The debt has been astronomical for many decades. I know its easy to believe its something new, but it really isnt. My entire life, America has been like this.

Im not too interested in the why, but I have glanced articles explaining why this is actually ok because of their position in the world, the world currency being the dollar, and other factors. Its very boring for me but you can find info about it.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

about to blow.

about to

It's not. Speaking from decades of living under this, it's always framed this way, but there are no international financial cops, there's nobody with American held debt that dares try to collect, we are the biggest, bloated monster with the biggest, baddest bloated military.

At the end of the day, the one with the biggest stick wins. Until that collapses, USA will continue to have an economic hegemony.

[-] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Every 30 FUCKING HOURS, since Covid, another Billionaire is created. That number was halfed before 2020. It means that nearly 500 people became billionaires while pretending they needed to raise prices astronomically to stay solvent. They need to be tried and sentenced harshly. VERY harshly.

[-] leavemealone@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Honestly stop being poor dudes, just ask your father for some millions to get started and star exploiting people, easy

[-] Capt_Trav@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Can someone do the math for me... If theoretically that was all liquid and those 3 got Thanos snapped with the money redistributed, how much would each American get?

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

About $2500 per person

As in 1 trillion / 390 million population

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

there are way more of us than there are of them.

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[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

What’s about the other twelve multi-billionaires that are worth more than $85B? Why were they left out?

[-] EightLeggedFreak@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's the "that guy wants your cookie" meme, but billionaires ranked 4th and lower are pointing at these 3.

[-] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

What people often forget about trickle-down economics is that wealth only trickles down to named beneficiaries

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