I’m a white person making a joke about white people. Stop trying to win the Oppression Olympics.
I’m a white person making a joke about white people. Stop trying to win the Oppression Olympics.
I’m not referring to skin color, but the social construct.
Race is a social construct.
Well that is the whitest thing I’ve heard today.
Owning land is not the same as governing land.
If you are running in the Olympics, it doesn’t matter if the 2nd place guy is 5 seconds or 10 seconds behind you. You still get the gold.
My point is that he didn’t lose a significant amount of money.
Like George Carlin said, somewhere there is the worst doctor and someone has an appointment with them tomorrow!
Even with all the losses, he is still the richest man in the world by more than $50 billion. Musk dumped more than half of his Tesla stock and is focusing more on SpaceX now.
Musk could easily buy himself a governorship or a senatorial position and work up from there. That’s not his goal. He wants to be the next Thomas Edison. He wants to be admired and remembered.
Dictator’s opulent displays of wealth are to stoke their egos. They don’t care about the money they spend because they just took it, they didn’t earn it. They care about how much control they have over the people around them. They don’t care if people like them ,only that they fear them.
Are you saying he is trying to take over the country by buying all the land? Seems like he’s just using land as an investment.
Can’t Hardly Wait.
I think there is a difference in mentality between people who chase power and people who chase money. Bull Gates certainly chases money, but he’s not trying to take over a country somewhere.
They have monopolies because we let them. I say nationalize all communication infrastructure.
Dictators do things like build and use rape rooms or throw people they don’t like out of helicopters.
Because the orange Cheeto wants to cut his taxes so he gets more money. Dictators want power, not money. That’s why they are famous for blowing it on such exorbitant things. It’s just a means to an end. To billionaires the money is the end.
A billionaire chases what gets them the most money. The public can manipulate them by making them lose money. A dictator wants power, which really can only be countered with mass violence.
That’s better than a dictator who only wants to protect his own power. At least a billionaire can be bought.
Dictatorships don’t answer to the people. It’s absolutely a problem that billionaires are controlling the flow of information, but it’s much worse for a dictator to do it.
Anything from Rusty is always good stuff!