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Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by rockbox, Jun 12, 2026 at 12:25 PM.

  1. rockbox

    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    The total combined annual revenue of Tesla and Space X is less and 150 billion dollars, but somehow Musk is worth a trillion dollars.

    Most of SpaceX's projected revenue comes from hoarding Nvidia chips that they now leasing to Google and Anthropic because no one uses Grok.

    Make it make sense to me.

    One thing I can say about Elon. He has the cheat code to the financial markets like it's a video game.
     
  2. Reeko

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    What was his net worth before Trump?
     
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    WE DID IT Y'ALL!!!!!
     
  4. Exiled

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    Time for some positivity:


    if you make 50k a year, your net worth valuation is ~2.3 Billion , congrats. ,you can afford to eat


    -Musk's formula (x 50k).
     
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    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    More than all of us combined. It's been that way since his paypal days.
     
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    It's not realy money
    it is electronic manipulation and slight of hand
    inflated value and accounting trickery

    BUT
    What it really is . . .is power and influence
    More important than money

    Rocket River
     
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    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    It may not be real money but it's real wealth. It's value that he can borrow against. What's better than spending your own money. Spending other people's money. When you are that rich, defaulting on a loan doesn't hurt you at all. The people who are loaning him the money don't care since it's not their money either. It's the money people stuck in their account and they can collect commissions off of it.
     
  9. adoo

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    in terms of net worth,
    the IPO has just added quite a few new millionaires in El Segundo, CA (~7,000 employees) and Starbase, TX (~4,000 employees)
     
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    if true, place a sell order at a price of $205 or better
     
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    Abomination.
     
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    DaDakota Arrest all Pedophiles

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    Tax him back to the billions !!!

    Most of his wealth is built from government subsidies.

    Tesla, Space X - all rely on our tax dollars to be viable companies.

    TAX THIS MAN....BIG TIME !

    DD
     
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    How much do you think he pays in Taxes LOL

    Musk is scum bag of epic proportions
     
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    sure, but I just looked it up, and his net worth was in 300 billion range before Trump took office and had ballooned up to 780 billion before now climbing past the trillion dollar range

    so he had already more than doubled his net worth

    all these dudes are making out like bandits now, but hey, drain the swamp and all that other nonsense

    I don’t want to hear Tilman talking about the luxury tax ever again, because if he wasn’t able to take advantage of the looting and pillaging of the country going on now, then he’s just a fail
     
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    and to think
    Just got starve nearly 400,000,000 people
    to make 4000 millions

    Rocket River
     
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    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    No one is starving because the IPO. The wealth came mostly out of thin air. It's like if I created 1 million rockbox coins and I sold one to you for 100 bucks. You invested 100 dollars but I'm worth 99 million dollars and can borrow against it and push the economy. My scenario is sort of extreme but it's kind of what is happening here.

    The sad part here is that people investing resources like energy, water and real estate into something that really doesn't help humanity at all instead doing things like figuring clean energy, fighting disease and the climate.
     
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    All you have to do is levy a tax specifically on loans taken with stock as collateral.
     
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