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Pull those bootstraps a little harder. (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by ivanafterall@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I highly doubt the USA will copy 1789 France.

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 5 points 5 days ago

No, it'll likely be worse, if

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[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Just after a few days it would be life changing money for me

[–] chetradley@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Elon's net worth has almost tripled since 2021.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

But at 1% pa interest you'd surpass all of humanity combined, even at measly savings contributions

[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (16 children)

Another way of viewing it is that if Elon Musk spent $10k every day since the ice age, he would still not be out of money.

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 8 points 6 days ago

Elon Musk can spend 35 million every day and still get richer by around 5 million every day.

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

And yet Musk is still fucking miserable.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's about 200,000 years saving 10k per day now. He's rapidly approaching a trillion in net worth.

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

We should've listened to Andrew Yang.

[–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

These memes and their funny numbers. Saving that long only gets you about 300 billion.

Musk has 3x that.

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[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (5 children)

You did not account for an inflation. How much todays $ is $1 from 80000y ago?

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

$0 because the concept of currency did not yet exist.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bout tree fiddy.

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[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

In case anyone wanted to know the number, it would be ~~$820,260,000~~ $ 299,395,000,000 by 2026

Edit: read the fucking thing wrong, it’s every day not every year mb

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[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If you made a dollar a second for 25,000 years, you still wouldnt have as much money as elon musk

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

82,000 years ago: WTF is a dollar?

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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

I just want them gone, i dont even care about the taxes.

[–] Shindo66@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Stop buying their shit.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 6 days ago

We're way past that. We need to do some clean up at this point.

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