• w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    If we killed Elon Musk and took all of his assets, we could buy every homeless person in the US a $990,000 house.

    If we killed Elon Musk and took all of his assets, we could eliminate world hunger for 24 years.

    If we killed Elon Musk and took all of his assets, We could buy every NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL team. We’d have enough money left over to also buy the top 20 European Soccer teams.

    If we killed Elon Musk and took all of his assets, we could fund NASA at its current budget for 40 years.

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      These are true facts, however it’s also true that we already have a number of unsold homes on the market greater than we have number of homeless people. We already make enough food to feed everyone. We just choose to let people sleep hungry on the streets. That’s what our democracy has voted for.

      So what does musk’s billions and trillions matter? He could have two trillion tomorrow, and we’d still have enough money as a country to take care of everyone, and we would count up the votes that say not to.

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        The first part of their little equation might work, the second part though…

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      Alternatively if we just took all his assets and didn’t kill him we could put Elon Musk to work in an emerald mine in South Africa and get some added value.

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      You couldn’t. You would have to sell stock that is at 350p/e ratio. The second you kill him the stocks would lose 800 trillion overnight and you couldn’t realize 90% of that.

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        Nah. Do what rich people actually do, take a loan out against the stock holdings.

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            Huh, I had no idea that bootlickers were allowed to post here, but here you are, showing your ass to the world.

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              That guy’s post history is so chock-full of awful bootlicker takes that it’s indistinguishable from an astroturf bot.

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            Oh yeah I misread the original statement. Tesla is a meme stock so they probably would lose value.

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          Yeah im against bloodshed generally as a rule but I bet the altruism would skyrocket.

          Put this into a trolley problem and see the results.

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            20 hours ago

            When that one healthcare CEO got shot the health insurance companies paid out on their promises for like a solid week. How long do you think on Musk would drive “altruism”?

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              I mean, there are ~3,500 billionaires in the world.

              So, to drive altruism we need to kill one per week, so that’ll last us some 67 years. Longer if we also qualify everybody over, idk, like a hundred million? Sounds like a glorious epoch of love, compassion and ritual sacrifice.

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              I have no idea if theyll get jaded to the concept and it’d lose its effect, or if there’d be a stacking effect.

              More research needed in this area first