• krisevol@lemmus.org
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    19 days ago

    He didn’t have a trillion dollars. He has stocks that have a market cap of a trillion.

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      19 days ago

      We all know mate. No one is saying he has a trillion dollars sitting in a bank account. Money is also fake. We made it up. It’s just less fake to you than stocks.

      Stocks are speculation on the value of a company. Currency is speculation on the value of a country.

      They both become worthless if we all go arm ourselves and kill the right people. They’re nothing more than ideas we all decide to agree on. We (the world) all just happen to currently agree that we measure an individuals “wealth” to include their current stocks they hold.

      I don’t know why this “smart” dumb guy comment has to be in every thread about Elon. Who is this for? Sorry, it’s like the 5th time I’ve read this in the last couple days.