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    He’s a billionaire, of course he has some relations with crime, Musk is just dumb enough to say the quiet part out loud.

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      I would hesitate before judging someone purely on one statistic but it’s difficult to imagine how one amasses that sort of money ethically. If I asked you to think of a billionaire that you would leave in charge of children, who would you pick? Bill Gates perhaps, Warren Buffet? It’s slim pickings.

      Jon Ronson advanced the idea that psychopathy is over-represented in the CEO class and presented some compelling examples in his book, The Psychopath Test.

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        If I asked you to think of a billionaire that you would leave in charge of children, who would you pick? Bill Gates perhaps

        Bill flew on the Lolita Express repeatedly, so I hope nobody chooses that one

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        it’s difficult to imagine how one amasses that sort of money ethically

        It simply can’t be done. How can it be ethical to earn millions times more than you could ever need, while others are in need of it. That’s unethical regardless of if how it was earned. Not a big Jesus fan, but he’s quite right about the need to share with those in need.

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    That must count as the most financially ruinous tweet ever. Serves Elon right for being a total prick.

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      Wasn’t president Musk’s announcement that he was going to BUY twitter a tweet? Seeing as it’s worth fuck-all now that’s in the running.

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          To be fair, buying Twitter was instrumental in him getting Trump to the presidency.

          Like any Billionaire, he needed a media outlet to manufacture consent with - I’d argue that him buying Twitter wasn’t as stupid a move as it initially seems.

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            I think he used Twitter to help Trump as a way of salvaging that investment, but I don’t think he originally bought it with that intention.

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          Buying the company was the decision to take over the communications channel by dictators worldwide. It wasn’t an accident and he doesn’t care about the value of shitter in the long term.

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        tbf the tweet itsself didnt cause the downfall though.

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      this is what happens when you run a government the way you’re used to running the monopoly you own. “hardball” doesn’t work on the global stage.

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      More like Art of Seduction. Dude is going around being megadouche, negging people and trying to make up for it with cheesy magic tricks.

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    That’s called “voting with your wallet”. Everyone should do that! Here in Europe we tanked Tesla sales. Rich and poor - everyone can do what’s right.

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        Here’s the thing… there’s more of us than there are of them. That’s why they’re so desperate to keep our collective attention elsewhere and to cause division or people might recognize just how strong they could be collectively.

        Even collectively we might not have billions of dollars, but it doesn’t take billions to crater a company or an industry. Just takes not paying into the system; it’ll collapse on its own.

        I get you can’t boycott everything because you need food and water to survive, but people aren’t helpless.

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        Dude, how do you think they got that money in the first place, bumming everybody out isn’t the move, please delete this post

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            Except now they have the banking system to give their money and they don’t need ours anymore, I think it’s well past the point of with our dollar. Just fucking look at Elon Musk he does not give a fuck, Twitter could go down to zero and he would still be the richest man on earth

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          It’s just facts.

          https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/press-releases/in-january-billionaires-amassed-more-wealth-than-the-poorest-third-of-humanity-owns/

          In January alone, billionaire wealth surged by $314 billion―around $10 billion a day. This is more than the combined wealth of the 2.8 billion people who make up the poorest third of humanity.

          At the global average income, it would take 15 million workers an entire year to collectively earn the same amount of money

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              Hes saying that everyone single person who upvoted this post would have to convince millions of people each to stand a chance against the financial power that is held by billionaires.

              Rich people love when idiots think that they can change the world by doing purely individualistic stuff. Even if you convince hundreds of people it wont change their margins by even 0.001%. Believing that markets have built in course correction that cant be completely dominated and steered by rich people is the biggest lie in the world.

              Do individualistic stuff anyways, because every improvement matters and it might make you happy. But know that it requires more than that to make a significant difference.

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                Works well here in Europe. You’ve been blinded by Trump & Co propaganda.

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                  No it doesnt, i have lived in Europe my whole life and its just as corrupt. The fucking german chancellor is a criminal involved in a huge tax evasion fraud. All big industries are friends with people in power and get huge amounts of taxes for no reason. As soon as a large company like VW loses money, they are bailed out with your taxes to keep it from going bankrupt. You can stop giving them your money, but the government will just do it for you by redirecting your taxes.