• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    Here’s some perspective.

    That’s only 1/1500 of his net worth.

    It’s the same as someone worth $50,000 spending $750.

    Most of us worked harder to buy our mattresses than Elon worked to buy the election.

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      It’s actually worse than than because winning the election has been a big windfall for Elmo to the tune of $70 billion: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/11/elon-musk-is-70-billion-richer-since-trump-victory-due-to-tesla-surge.html

      It’s more like he got a 34,900% return on investment. If you include the $44 billion he “spent” on Twitter that brings the ROI down to a still impressive 58%, outperforming pretty much any market or fund.

      They really are good businessmen, but the foxes are now in control of the hen house. Good luck everyone else!

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        They really are good businessmen

        If you measure success by how much cash you can exploit for yourself…

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          Yes, that is unfortunately the measure capitalism uses to judge success. Something something invisible hand I guess.