Now is a good time to flood Wikipedia with donations. For the first time in my life, i have just donated to them and will do so again. You can do it too for a minimum of €2, no requirement for recurring donations or any nonsense.
Indicator 9,876,872,820,111 that that fucker has more money than anyone should ever have.
There’s not one single person in the world who should own a thousand million dollars, never mind hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.
The pure existence of billionaires is unethical and immoral - doesn’t matter whether they’re being stupid and fascist in public, or quietly pulling strings and bending society to their will in the background.
But I want to quietly pull the strings of society so everyone can have food and housing security, get rid of food deserts, and end Elon Musk personally. Like, with my hands. Give me a billion dollars
why do we allow this to happen?
Because too many people think that one day they’ll be rich and get to take advantage of poor people like themselves.
Who is “we”?
What have you done to prevent it?
I know this is trolling but fwie, ‘we’ is the community that we’re all part of.
Tangential, but I’ve always wondered why in English 10^9 is one billion. 10^6 is one million. Twice as many zeroes should be one billion. Three times as many, one trillion, etc.
Only in English is this weird naming system used and originally only in American English. You can put it in the pile over there with the miles and pounds and other oddities.
Other languages have milliard between million and billion, billiard after billion etc.
Miles and pounds came to America from England, but miles were the common system at least as far back as the Romans.
Short form numbers are used throughout the English speaking world and are the international scientific standard.
Why is is that you think that your system of squaring makes more sense than the system of a new name for every third power of ten?
Long vs short counting system. Americans use the short system. As a European, long system makes so much more sense! Here’s an interesting video about it: https://youtu.be/C-52AI_ojyQ?si=-TS4BYg-FT0SAeSo
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From memory, when I was a kid, it used to be that a billion was 10^12, but I think most of the world changed at some point to adopt the American billion of 10^9.
Edit: wiki article that discuss a little of this
As a kid I was taught numbers like so.
Once you had X amount of X, then it became the next one. 10 ten = 100, 100 hundred = 1000 1000 thousand = 1 million, 1 million million = billion. And so on.
Yep - same here. Australia, early 80s. You?
100 hundred is 10,000
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and he’d definitely pay too.
Just like he fought Zuckerberg, and how he followed through on the Twitter purchase without having to be forced!
don’t forget about his full self driving cars by 2015
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We already have Dickopedia elon, it’s called twitter and YOU paid $44 billion for it.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haI offer Elon $1 to change his name to Doge McCumStain. I hope he will accept my generous offer.
I’ll offer him $10. As a measurement of a percentage of my personal wealth I am offering double what Elon is offering.
I challenge elon to give the one billion to me and I will give him back double
He clearly has the level of self-respect required for such a dignified name. And I doubt he’s ever passed up an opportunity to make a quick buck.
That man child has the emotions and humour of a little kid, I swear.
Wikipedia should counter by offering Elon $4 to go towards paying off his massive hole from buying Twitter. 😂
He doesn’t need to pay. Twitter is already worth less than the debt, if he continues to break that company apart there’ll he no reason to even consider paying the debt off.
That’s not how debt works, he almost certainly pledged assets and a personal guarantee against it. This is known as collateral.
The banks take the collateral when you stop paying.
The way I understood it is that he didn’t get a loan to buy the company, but had a bank itself buy Twitter as a loan, so Twitter itself is the collateral. That’s what I did when I bought my apartment: a bank bought it from the constructor and let me live in it while slowly buying it from them over hundreds of installments. If I stopped paying the bank would kick me out and sell the apartment to someone else.
If you tear down the apartment, you cannot stop paying with the excuse that now it worths nothing. You’d still need to pay the original value
That isn’t quite right. If you stopped paying the bank would kick you out and sell the apartment to someone else, but if they get less than you owe them for it, they will also send you a bill for the remainder.
And then sue you to get that money.
Interestingly, if they get more than you owe them for it, they will cut you a check for the difference.
But you are actually wrong about how and what the order of operations is.
You are buying the house, the lender (bank) writes the check directly to the seller, and you sign a mortgage agreement for that much with the bank and they put a lien on your house. The bank does not own the house, you do. The bank owns a promissory note from you, backed by your personal wealth and credit and the value of the house (that they have a lien on).
In the case of Twitter, yes, Twitter itself is part of the collateral, but so was Elon musks personal wealth and Tesla shares.
The debt is a tax writeoff. The entire company is a tax writeoff for him and his clique.
This will allow them to gain billions more without spending a cent in taxes.
Tell me you don’t understand taxes without telling me you don’t understand taxes.
Tell me you don’t understand that its exactly what Trump did.
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So he’s offering that money to name it after himself?
I’m not even clicking on that link, I never click on stuff with that turd’s name on the headline, just wanted to make the joke.
Don’t think he needs that domain when he’s already got:
Disappointed that it isn’t real
I’m starting to think this guy isn’t very wise about spending his money.
Or just in general.
He doesn’t need to be, that’s the worrying thing…
Chance the name for an hour, display only Elon’s wiki page and sue the dickhead.
Maybe Elon should just donate a billion because he supposedly cares about free information so much?
Oh, but you see, information is really only free if it’s something Musk agrees with.
wikipedia foundation’s financials are solid, stable, and healthy.
how’s twitter doing lately, elon?
wikipedia foundation’s financials are solid, stable, and healthy.
Are they though? They’re asking for money constantly
They have more than enough money
I mean, donations are their only income so they have to ask but that doesn’t mean they don’t get enough.
They have more money then they know what to do with and blow a shitload every year
I checked their reported expenses and couldn’t really find anything they “blow” money on. Their revenue is smaller than a midsize EU football team, and considering the value comparison between the two, that makes me think either we disagree completely, you have extra info that you did not share, or I don’t understand you.
I mean, I’m not sure what they use all that money to develop, but they definitely don’t need all this money to just develop and sustain. Despite activity having hit its peak in the 2000s, spending continues to increase, and extensive feature request and enhancement backlog still stands while developers focus on whatever the foundation’s whim is. Not to mention there’s some controversy over the Tides Foundation.
Well then I’m glad I’ve never given them any
Never donated to Wikipedia before… this shit changed that in a hurry.
Likewise. Jumped at it immediately
For a billion I’d change my name to that.
The other part is that you would also have to sue Elon to actually get paid.
That’s what escrow is for
All of the wrong people have money.
Or money turns them into all of the wrong people.
No. Assholes are assholes, and Elon is just an asshole with money.
Compare this man child to a billionaire like Yvon Chouinard, founder of the company Patagonia, and you’ll understand that money doesn’t change good people.
No such thing as a good billionaire. The only variance is how good they are at maintaining their public image.
Bullshit. They were born this way mainly because they were born rich.
Why? They’re either born with the money or make the money, but either way the money has turned them into terrible people.
I’d argue that you have to be horrible already to have loads of money. Any reasonably good person would be using their excess wealth for a good cause rather than building ego rockets.
Money = power, and power corrupts. I’m sure there are some people who are horrible before they become wealthy, but I think money (and power) has a way of blunting peoples’ empathy.
I mean, Musk was born fairly rich, but not like that. Most tech billionaires come from a sort of upper-middle-class to low-upper-class background, probably just because there’s not a lot of super rich families to start with. There are a few lower-class exceptions that prove the rule, although they can be hard to pin down because they all like to claim they grew up rough (and therefore earned their place by being better the peasants), and of course the heirs of other billionaires.
As far as I can tell, they act about the way a random person would given their situation. You get power-drunk dicks like Elon Musk, but also philanthropists like Chuck Feeney (who gave it all away) and Bill Gates, while most just stay quiet and enjoy having unfathomable wealth (Bezos, Zuckerberg).
It’s the effects of capitalism. It’s pathocracy.
