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Case study in money not buying happiness. Richest man in the world by a wide margin. CONSTANTLY whining and crying about something.
If I had even a billion dollars y'all would never catch my ass on social media on in the public eye at all.
If I had a billion dollars I would share it with everyone I could. Elon Musk is a sick individual, ability to make money does not make him genius. People around him made him what he is. All inventions belong to people not him. Even his first company it highly debatable what he invented himself. Its a classic one guy is a genius conspiracy.
I'd very quickly no longer be a billionaire because I'd be donating to hospitals and trying to build affordable housing and helping people.
It's the most deranged of us that seem to climb by using the people around him as steps. Shit floats.
With that kind of attitude you will never have a billion dollar /s
Not /s, literally
Billionaires have a selection bias
If I got a billion dollars I would disappear so thoroughly people would think I'm dead.
Life is short as fuck. But getting all the money you need to live a happy, healthy, long life is as good as it can possibly get on earth. You did it, you won. You can either use it to make people happy or you can just disappear and try to enjoy the brief time you have left.
I don't get the motivation, desire and energy to do these massive public campaigns that focus the entire world's population on you every single day. It doesn't help anything or anyone and just causes stress. What is the purpose? It has to be some kind of delusion or mania, something gone wrong.
He didn't just get a billion dollars though, its just unrealized gains in stocks, and those stocks represent his influence/control in the company.
If you helped build a company, and were passionate about it, you'd give that all up? If your vision was to build XYZ and you gave up those shares and you knew XYZ wouldn't happen anymore, would you give that all up?
He DID get 300 million dollars from PayPal, and he decided to fund Tesla and build SpaceX and almost lost it all. Was it wrong of him to use all his money to try and build something? (He actually didn't want to build SpaceX but no one wanted to do the inspiration project sending a plant or something to Mars he wanted to do)
We need a way to separate the stock value/holdings from company ownership/influence when companies get this big.
That and not having a working dick.