Nothing. If you were born in 1AD and earned 1,000,000 every single day without spending a single penny you still would not be a trillionaire today. He will never spend that wealth , he will use that money to get loans that he does not owe taxes on, using that money to acquire even more capital. He has stated his goal is 10 trillion. At no point along the way will he use his wealth or influence to directly improve any common person's life. He is a cancer on our planet, on our economy, and on our civilization.
Leap years: Floor(2025 / 4) = 506 - floor(2025 / 100) = 486 + floor(2025 / 400) = 491 (every 4th year except every 100th year with the exception of every 400th year)
I wanted to show the full calculation, but that one works too.
And yes, you could do some more math to account for the 10 day drift the Julian calendar introduced but historians mostly use the proleptic Gregorian calendar which removes this for ease of use to better count orbits. If you want the actual sunrises since 1/1/0001 it should be enough to just add back 10 days.
2000 is divisible by 400 so it is a leap year. It goes "divisible by 4" is a leap year, "divisible by 100" not a leap year, "divisible by 400" the exception to the exception so this is a leap year too.
Did you account for the switch from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar?
Don't worry if you didn't, this has tripped up a number of apocalyptic religious cults as well, they had to rewrite their time tables to Doomsday when somebody pointed it out to them.
But yeah, basically, 10 days got wiped out of conceptual existence in the uh, great time refactor of 1582. ... and more confusingly, it wasn't like, globally adopted at the same time, so, sometimes, in some places, adoption resulted in the nullification of 11, 12, or 13 days.
No, I used the proleptic Gregorian calendar, so if you want to count sunrises you can just add 10 days. Historians use it for simplicity and accept the drift.
Mare, just let Elon pay for you - you have the game, you have the money and you have the fun. Elon gets the “honour”, but nobody will ever believe him anyway.
He is definitely not the first trillionair or the richest man. he is the first publicly recorded trillionair / richest man. Most keep the vast majority they have secret as fuck.
Most of that money is in Tesla stock so not much can be done with it. Maybe take out 10% to 30% of its value as a loan from banks with the stock as collateral then mostly buy some shit that will ideally appreciate in value. It's not liquid wealth so there isn't much you can do with it. $1B liquid would be far more valuable than $1T in stock evaluations.
Yep. Musk might be rich but he's not as influential as he tries to be. He's actually kind of pathetic in that respect, gets eaten up by the media and looks like a complete tool.
He tried so hard to be in the neo Nazi inner circle but he's just a rich wannabe in every fucking regard.
Kinda unfortunate honestly. If he just chilled without getting into politics and just worked on electric cars, boring machines, battery factories, rockets, and satellite internet probably would be a much more beloved figure. The whole twitter and political involvement / rigging is definitely a downhill move.
Probably accurate although the demand for electric vehicles and hybrids isn't going anywhere and most definitely the demand for batteries isn't going anywhere. Cheap boring and rockets are definitely more niche. Low earth orbit satellite internet has been massive in less developed countries with underdeveloped infrastructure. Maybe if we had something super valuable to mine on the moon or on an asteroid we lassoed into orbit. In short probably could have played the field like most tech companies do and been fine. Check out all the AI companies not going full alt right yet doing alright with massive operating costs to revenue.
It's like asking a hoarder what they plan to do with all of those .
It's a mental illness but instead of recognizing it as such, calling it out and getting them treatment, society celebrates them and says they are doing everything that everybody else should strive for.
because society is jealous. they wish they could be him.
they aren't jealous of a horder. they think that person is sad and gross.
I have family member who have a net worth of over 50million, all they talk about is how poor they are, how they can't afford anything, how everything is so unfair to them... etc. They believe they are struggling working-class people. They adore Elon and think he's a genius and they wish they could be as rich as him and they think if they were all their 'struggles' would be solved... they especially love the idea of never paying any taxes, because they think taxes are theft from themselves to 'waste' on poor lazy piece of shit who refuse to 'grow up' and go get 250k/yr jobs.
and there are lots and lots of rich people like my family who think the same way... and who think because they donate like a pittance of their money each year they are morally perfect human beings.
He's going to use it for political influence to further his fucked-up Nazi ideals.
And, of course, get more money. It's never enough with these fuckers. They have a version of hoarding disorder. It's always on to the next grift, more money, more money, more money, more money, number must go up!
Until he's the only free person in the world and absolutely everyone else is either dead or a slave owned by him, he's not done.
Yeah, a lot of rich folks said it's been about one-upping each other.
Mark Cuban was asked if he wants to increase his net worth. He responded that he's busy managing the Dallas Maverick's. But that interview seems to insinuate that there is an expectation amongst the wealthy to just keep accumulating wealth. Literally like a cancer that keeps growing.
He'll probably just continue working to diminish democracy across the planet and leave a legacy of hate and ignorance instead of using his wealth to leave a positive legacy, which would be easy as fuck since he'd basically just be paying others to do good things in his name and taking the credit.
Imagine having all that and still being a worthless gross PoS. Lol I would be the worst philanthropist you ever seen--- meaning I'd be giving money to good stuff like food and climate and eduction while simultaneously making life a living hell for anyone who votes against that stuff. I'm talking hiring people to nonstop hate on those types till they quit social media. Give me your money so I can buy the US Senate; we getting shit won.
You leave a dynasty of offspring that never have to work a day in their lives and turn out to be shit humans who use their inherited wealth to buy politicians and degrade the quality of life for average people for generations.
Seriously though. America's ultra wealthy are going to have generations of ultra wealthy born rich cunts that continue fucking our shit up.
My only doubt about this is: are people calling him a trillionaire USA style? I mean, they normally don't use milliards. They just jump from millions to billions. So it would make him a billionaire to all of us more "civilized" people, wouldn't it?
This is not a simple US vs rest of the world distinction. Long scale and short scale are both used in multiple countries and multiple languages. My own country uses short scale but with billion replaced by milliard so it goes miljon, miljard, triljon, kvadriljon. Then India has lakh (1,00,000) and crore (1,00,00,000). No, the two zeroes between commas weren't a mistake.
I want to make clear that I'm not shitting on USA. But I'm genuinely curious about how are they making the calculations. I understand what you mean, but it doesn't really answer my question. Either way, be it milliards, billions or trillions, we average Joes and Janes are royally and disgustingly fucked...
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GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 140 pts · 53d
Nothing. If you were born in 1AD and earned 1,000,000 every single day without spending a single penny you still would not be a trillionaire today. He will never spend that wealth , he will use that money to get loans that he does not owe taxes on, using that money to acquire even more capital. He has stated his goal is 10 trillion. At no point along the way will he use his wealth or influence to directly improve any common person's life. He is a cancer on our planet, on our economy, and on our civilization.
wetsoggybread@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 53d
Its only been 738,715 days since 1/1/0001 so this checks
VonReposti@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 53d
My calculations make it 739,802
Baseline: 2025 * 365 = 739,125
Leap years: Floor(2025 / 4) = 506 - floor(2025 / 100) = 486 + floor(2025 / 400) = 491 (every 4th year except every 100th year with the exception of every 400th year)
1st of Jan 2026 to 5th of July 2026: 186
Total: 739,125 + 491 + 186 = 739,802
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 53d
Why not just do 2025×365.2425 + 186?
Also note: the Gregorian calendar was not in use yet at the start of this, so that might throw off all your calculations
VonReposti@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 53d
I wanted to show the full calculation, but that one works too.
And yes, you could do some more math to account for the 10 day drift the Julian calendar introduced but historians mostly use the proleptic Gregorian calendar which removes this for ease of use to better count orbits. If you want the actual sunrises since 1/1/0001 it should be enough to just add back 10 days.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 53d
Wait so you're telling me 2000 was not a leap year? But 2200 will be?
I was too young to really pay attention that year.
That's interesting about the proleptic calendar and stuff.
VonReposti@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 53d
2000 is divisible by 400 so it is a leap year. It goes "divisible by 4" is a leap year, "divisible by 100" not a leap year, "divisible by 400" the exception to the exception so this is a leap year too.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 53d
Oh fuck, I'm clearly too tired to do math in my head right now...
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 52d
Did you account for the switch from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar?
Don't worry if you didn't, this has tripped up a number of apocalyptic religious cults as well, they had to rewrite their time tables to Doomsday when somebody pointed it out to them.
But yeah, basically, 10 days got wiped out of conceptual existence in the uh, great time refactor of 1582. ... and more confusingly, it wasn't like, globally adopted at the same time, so, sometimes, in some places, adoption resulted in the nullification of 11, 12, or 13 days.
VonReposti@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 51d
No, I used the proleptic Gregorian calendar, so if you want to count sunrises you can just add 10 days. Historians use it for simplicity and accept the drift.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 51d
Excellent!
If Dr Who ever randomly abducts you, you'll be slightly better suited for the experiencd than most!
davidgro@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
Why June?
lavacake1111@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
Typo. That's probably July.
VonReposti@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 53d
Fixed, it was a typo
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 53d
I hate that we've had to change this calculation from a billionaire to a trillionaire. Both are fucking disgusting numbers.
Also, I swear to God if anyone mentions compound interest I'm gonna strap you to one of Elon's exploding rockets.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 48 pts · 53d
He's going to spend it paying top esports players to play games pretending to be him.
Elon is finally going to be the champion in all videogames.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 53d
No, I am the video game boy! I'm the one who wins!
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 53d
Mare, just let Elon pay for you - you have the game, you have the money and you have the fun. Elon gets the “honour”, but nobody will ever believe him anyway.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
Okay Arin
danc4498@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 53d
Money isn’t the endgame. It’s power. He wants to own the world and have all the people inside of it report to him.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
I mean if he wants to buy my sheep I'll sell them. I fucking hate these sheep.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 53d
"Now what?" Is apparently helping to turn the United States in to Nazi Germany for "teh lolz"
DmMacniel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 53d
He's just that quirky. Haha.
Raccoon_Rick@altgag.net · 23 pts · 53d
No amount of money in the world will make him a better PoE2 player
JustDorky@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 53d
Worlds richest loser
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 53d
Hey, Elon Musk could be in this thread, reading your comments, sobbing like a thing that sobs a lot. Why isn't this bolded.
123@programming.dev · 2 pts · 52d
He's waiting for the wildest comment on this thread and an invite.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 53d
cosmos8188@leminal.space · 5 pts · 52d
Kids these days and their Power over Ethernet.
123@programming.dev · 2 pts · 52d
It's PoE2 so it's gooder
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 53d
He's a parasite, he will continue to feed on us until nothing is left. Maybe kill some more kids for fun because it's the only way he feels anything.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 53d
Now he accumulates more wealth, there is no end to capitalist accumulation.
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d
No money for social programs though, of course infrastructure, medical care and education has no role in helping him accumulate wealth, no sir.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 18 pts · 53d
He won capitalism. He should start a new game on a harder difficulty.
ZeroCool@piefed.ca · 12 pts · 53d
Dude has to pay people to play video games for him... There's no way he could handle life on medium difficulty.
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 53d
Squid game but reversed financial status
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 53d
He is definitely not the first trillionair or the richest man. he is the first publicly recorded trillionair / richest man. Most keep the vast majority they have secret as fuck.
Most of that money is in Tesla stock so not much can be done with it. Maybe take out 10% to 30% of its value as a loan from banks with the stock as collateral then mostly buy some shit that will ideally appreciate in value. It's not liquid wealth so there isn't much you can do with it. $1B liquid would be far more valuable than $1T in stock evaluations.
terranoid@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 53d
Yep. Musk might be rich but he's not as influential as he tries to be. He's actually kind of pathetic in that respect, gets eaten up by the media and looks like a complete tool.
He tried so hard to be in the neo Nazi inner circle but he's just a rich wannabe in every fucking regard.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 53d
Kinda unfortunate honestly. If he just chilled without getting into politics and just worked on electric cars, boring machines, battery factories, rockets, and satellite internet probably would be a much more beloved figure. The whole twitter and political involvement / rigging is definitely a downhill move.
rafoix@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 53d
He got into politics because he saw the balance sheets at the companies he’s running.
His businesses desperately needed government backing and he saw an opportunity to buy himself into the most corrupt administration ever.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 53d
Probably accurate although the demand for electric vehicles and hybrids isn't going anywhere and most definitely the demand for batteries isn't going anywhere. Cheap boring and rockets are definitely more niche. Low earth orbit satellite internet has been massive in less developed countries with underdeveloped infrastructure. Maybe if we had something super valuable to mine on the moon or on an asteroid we lassoed into orbit. In short probably could have played the field like most tech companies do and been fine. Check out all the AI companies not going full alt right yet doing alright with massive operating costs to revenue.
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 53d
Umm actually, people keep saying he's a trillionaire, that's not technically true.
He wasn't even if SpaceX was at its peak valuation. It was unrealized, floating on an actual liquidity of like 100 billion.
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 53d
Paper wealth yes, but he can still spend $250m on an election like its couch shrapnel.
placebo@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 53d
EndOfLine@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 53d
It's like asking a hoarder what they plan to do with all of those .
It's a mental illness but instead of recognizing it as such, calling it out and getting them treatment, society celebrates them and says they are doing everything that everybody else should strive for.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
because society is jealous. they wish they could be him.
they aren't jealous of a horder. they think that person is sad and gross.
I have family member who have a net worth of over 50million, all they talk about is how poor they are, how they can't afford anything, how everything is so unfair to them... etc. They believe they are struggling working-class people. They adore Elon and think he's a genius and they wish they could be as rich as him and they think if they were all their 'struggles' would be solved... they especially love the idea of never paying any taxes, because they think taxes are theft from themselves to 'waste' on poor lazy piece of shit who refuse to 'grow up' and go get 250k/yr jobs.
and there are lots and lots of rich people like my family who think the same way... and who think because they donate like a pittance of their money each year they are morally perfect human beings.
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 53d
Make everyone else as misrable as him it appears.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 53d
Dog catches car.
Is dissapointed.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 53d
Elon: “More.”
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 9 pts · 53d
He's going to use it for political influence to further his fucked-up Nazi ideals.
And, of course, get more money. It's never enough with these fuckers. They have a version of hoarding disorder. It's always on to the next grift, more money, more money, more money, more money, number must go up!
Until he's the only free person in the world and absolutely everyone else is either dead or a slave owned by him, he's not done.
Xatolos@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 51d
If I remember right, Musk made a comment on this that was around "Once you get enough money, you stop seeing it as money and more like a high score."
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
Yeah, a lot of rich folks said it's been about one-upping each other.
Mark Cuban was asked if he wants to increase his net worth. He responded that he's busy managing the Dallas Maverick's. But that interview seems to insinuate that there is an expectation amongst the wealthy to just keep accumulating wealth. Literally like a cancer that keeps growing.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 51d
And that folks is how I met your mother(capitalism).
jonesey71@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 53d
He should explore the afterlife.
Airfried@piefed.social · 6 pts · 53d
He will continue to make our lives harder of course.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 51d
He'll probably just continue working to diminish democracy across the planet and leave a legacy of hate and ignorance instead of using his wealth to leave a positive legacy, which would be easy as fuck since he'd basically just be paying others to do good things in his name and taking the credit.
Not a smart man.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 53d
That money is trying to fill a hole in his soul of infinite deapth.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 53d
Imagine having all that and still being a worthless gross PoS. Lol I would be the worst philanthropist you ever seen--- meaning I'd be giving money to good stuff like food and climate and eduction while simultaneously making life a living hell for anyone who votes against that stuff. I'm talking hiring people to nonstop hate on those types till they quit social media. Give me your money so I can buy the US Senate; we getting shit won.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
sure you would buddy. sure you would.
Dookieman12@piefed.social · 5 pts · 53d
Ill tell you what he's NOT going to: anything to improve anyone's life but his own.
87Six@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 52d
He'll probably ask to toucuh kids on epstein island again after becoming a trillionare, and he'll probably be rejected again
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
Toucuh
MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 53d
When you reach your peak, it's time to die.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 52d
Prison
hark@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
Next up is quadrillionaire, of course!
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 53d
Hackers could do something hilarious
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
I bet that loser asks this to Grok AI lol
plyth@feddit.org · 2 pts · 53d
At least he is saying that he wants humanity to become a two planet civilisation.
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
At these numbers it becomes meaningless, like infinity+1. All we know is that he can get whatever he wants.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 51d
he was briefly worth $1T on paper. Then SpaceX go poof.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
Don't you see? if he has enough money then Grimes will love him again! It's not pathetic, you're pathetic!
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
Downvoter doesn't get sarcasm
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
nothing.
you don't do anything with that kind of money. you just have it.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
You leave a dynasty of offspring that never have to work a day in their lives and turn out to be shit humans who use their inherited wealth to buy politicians and degrade the quality of life for average people for generations.
Seriously though. America's ultra wealthy are going to have generations of ultra wealthy born rich cunts that continue fucking our shit up.
Tax them out of existence.
LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 53d
He should be invited onwards.
pedrobear@altgag.net · 0 pts · 53d
My only doubt about this is: are people calling him a trillionaire USA style? I mean, they normally don't use milliards. They just jump from millions to billions. So it would make him a billionaire to all of us more "civilized" people, wouldn't it?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 53d
This is not a simple US vs rest of the world distinction. Long scale and short scale are both used in multiple countries and multiple languages. My own country uses short scale but with billion replaced by milliard so it goes miljon, miljard, triljon, kvadriljon. Then India has lakh (1,00,000) and crore (1,00,00,000). No, the two zeroes between commas weren't a mistake.
pedrobear@altgag.net · 1 pts · 53d
I want to make clear that I'm not shitting on USA. But I'm genuinely curious about how are they making the calculations. I understand what you mean, but it doesn't really answer my question. Either way, be it milliards, billions or trillions, we average Joes and Janes are royally and disgustingly fucked...