Musk had to borrow around $13 billion for his doomed $44 billion acquisition.
Had he spent that $57 billion on developing space hardware instead of going insane and squandering it on social media bullshit, he might have done something worthwhile. I mean… fifty seven billion! What even is that much money? He could have had his own space station for that much money! He could fly up there for weekends, just for funzies.
No, he wouldn’t have. Musk is an incompetent billionaire parasite, even more incompetent than the average billionaire parasite, and would have simply squandered his ill-gotten money on something else.
That’s why I used the word “capital” instead of “money”, but I had a feeling someone still was going to deliberately misunderstand me to try to sound smart.
You’ve bamboozled my attempt to make the same joke at your expense by only mentioning one number in your comment, giving me nothing to add to it. From this point on, I conclude we should only ever mention one number in each comment, for clarity.
Haha everyone keeps saying that! But it’s pretty funny how wrong everyone is about where the mistake was.
The math is just fine, I did the simple addition correctly. It’s the reading comprehension that I got wrong, I misunderstood what the sentence was saying.
Ugh… it drives me nuts!
Had he spent that $57 billion on developing space hardware instead of going insane and squandering it on social media bullshit, he might have done something worthwhile. I mean… fifty seven billion! What even is that much money? He could have had his own space station for that much money! He could fly up there for weekends, just for funzies.
No, he wouldn’t have. Musk is an incompetent billionaire parasite, even more incompetent than the average billionaire parasite, and would have simply squandered his ill-gotten money on something else.
Probably avocado
He’d patent avocado genetics and call them “xavocados.”
Oh ok, well that’s a relief. I’m glad we had you and your crystal ball handy!
The nature of capitalism and the capitalist class haven’t been a secret now for more than a hundred years. No crystal balls required.
Take your lithium
Why didn’t he just spend his own billions to prop up his venture? Oh, because he doesn’t want to pay taxes.
That’s not how math works.
No, my math is just fine, it’s my reading comprehension that needs work, because I totally misunderstood what that sentence was saying.
That $13 billion is part of the $44 billion, you don’t add them together.
He spent $31 billion of his own capital, and borrowed $13 billion to cover the rest.
“own capital” probably more like stocks from Tesla, I doubt any actual money moved
That’s why I used the word “capital” instead of “money”, but I had a feeling someone still was going to deliberately misunderstand me to try to sound smart.
Oh great, I added all the numbers in your comment together and now it’s $101 billion?? When will this madness end???
You’ve bamboozled my attempt to make the same joke at your expense by only mentioning one number in your comment, giving me nothing to add to it. From this point on, I conclude we should only ever mention one number in each comment, for clarity.
With all that money, he could have given every person in the world $12.625 billion!!! It’s unfathomable!
maybe you couldn’t fathom it, but I’m built different
Oh thank you, my mistake. Still the numbers are huge!
I do English, but your math is wrong
Haha everyone keeps saying that! But it’s pretty funny how wrong everyone is about where the mistake was.
The math is just fine, I did the simple addition correctly. It’s the reading comprehension that I got wrong, I misunderstood what the sentence was saying.