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Money can absolutely buy happiness, but you have to be capable of feeling it. A trillion bucks would let anyone do amazing things that could make you incredibly happy.
However, the process of getting a trillion dollars requires that you're an evil psychopath incapable of experiencing pleasure.
Just think about how much happiness you'd get from:
Completely solving world hunger, single-handedly.
Massive vaccine roll-outs to eradicate or nearly eradicate some of the worst diseases.
Giving every single homeless person in the US a free house to live in.
So much hookers and blow.
And after all that, you'd still be a billionaire. Just getting started.
The world would also celebrate your existence, not despise you.
I think about this all the time. If he just built electrified trains everywhere in the world and ended world hunger, I wouldn't even bat an eye if he also wanted to start a weird sex cult (with consenting adults). Chute dude, i'd probably sign up to incubate one of his sons.
Solving world hunger would get you an endless parade of pussy.
You wouldn't need hookers.
His dick dont werk tho
Dude could be universally loved and become a living saint if he spent his money for good. Instead he'll just be remembered as just another greedy pathetic rich asshole.
Yeah I agree, if I was a billionaire I’d be spending a lot of money on things that don’t just benefit myself, and I’d hope that’d make me happy at least a little bit. I think the not having happiness part comes from the hoarding part of it.
But you wouldn't be a billionaire. There are people in the world that do good, they just don't get as rich because they care about people
Exactly. I believe that becoming a billionaire is necessarily a symptom of some kind of mental illness because of what it takes to do so. Most people would be unwilling to do it.
Except he doesn’t have a trillion dollars. He’s got assets he can borrow against that he claims are worth that much and people believe him.
There have been studies done that suggested money can buy happiness but only to a certain extent. I think the cap was somewhere north of the upper middle class. Enough money where you didn't ever really have to worry about bills or ever going broke, while also being able to travel and vacation several times a year.
Past that point increasing the amount of money didn't increase the overall happiness of the person.
Never forget that Elon is such a colossal looser, that even Epstein, the most despicable piece of shit on earth, wanted absolutely nothing to do with him.
This is the type of special that Elon brings to the world.
It is not true that he wanted nothing to do with him. The mails shows that Musk did attend Epstein parties. He just had to beg one time for it though.
Is there a particular reason to think this is not really his mother? Or is the joke to simply assume that?
Yes, i wondered the same. I don't want to assume this is correct just because it fits into my worldview.
I did a bit of digging. This post is bullshit. There are multiple photos from the event and the cake around. And the account, as far as is can tell, is run by his mother.
Plenty of real stuff we can still hate him for though: the video game cheating, transphobia, epstein stuff, transphobia, doge, list goes on
The left and the right are NOT the same. Only one of them works at least in the general direction of a future that can work, for everyone.
But the level of lies, propaganda, deception, gaslighting absolutely is. Every single time I read something implausible, like this, and dig deeper, it turns out to be complete and utter BS, like some left mirror version of Trump. ALL of it.
Again, the lies are on the same level, not the policies.
This photo shows the exact opposite: A heartfelt congratulations post from a mother, a wonderful cake. Note how they decided to lie about this, even though they could easily have talked about the family relation that is NOT intact, his daughter. But no, they don't want to talk about his daughter and how he treats her. They want to smear the mother-son relationship with lies.
And I would also point out that criminals who have not yet been convicted by a court (and never may be in this case, different problem) have the same right to a great birthday party with loving family as everybody else.
One time Elon posted about how he can't be out of touch because his grandmother was poor, and his "mom" immediately replied and agreed with him, but it sounded like she was confusing his dad's mom with her own mom, so everybody assumes Elon was posting as her and fucked it up.
Flip a coin. She looks evil enough to love Elon.
Ngl fam. She looks like she's about to skin 101 dalmatian puppies to make her coat.
She looks evil enough to skin a toddler alive because she needs a dinner napkin
Hide yo kids. Hide yo dalmations.
temu cruella deville south african version. she cant match Glenn close's cruella.
Oh god. She has major "mom from futurama" vibes
She looks like the fucking joker.
He's well known for having alt accounts so he can stroke his own ego
I see no friends and family in those pictures. Even his a.i. generated fantasies make him look like a loser.
(edit: fixed typo. Thanks, hperrin)
I may be sad, but I’ll never be former trillionaire stuck on the internet sad.
I'd almost feel bad for him if he wasn't such a massive piece of shit.
Even grok knew better than to burn tokens generating some friends in those pictures.
Billionaireism is a disease. Help us fight it.
Sometimes I feel kinda sorry for him for how alone he is, I can't imagine it, although it's pretty much his own fault for being so terrible.
I live in a so-called progressive blue state that has a lot of Democrats. I see more and more of them driving new Teslas around. To me, all Tesla owners—especially those who purchased their vehicle in the last couple years—are just authoritarian Trump supporters. Prove me wrong.
He is only 55! Thats a rough 55 for having all the money in the world. I don't mean go get plastic surgery, but you would think he would be able to take better care of himself. Man, imagine what he would look like if he was never rich? For starters no hair.
Rumor has it he tries all the anti-aging experimental stuff, and of course that would take a toll.
Ironic.
I heard jumping in a swimming pool with a toaster stops you from aging.
M'twenties
The present muskrat is the "good looking, money muskrat". Without the money he would look like a goblin, as his skinsuit tries to match his soul. "Taking better care of himself" could have only been fixing that soul of his.
I know other billionaires are super duper evil too, with fettid insides. I'm saying that's just how much worse his is. The things he wants to do to humanity are top tier, once-every-few-generation horrors. They are so bad, other rich people, thiel not included, just can't keep up.
Well yeah, there’s only so much you can do to fix mental and personality issues. The things wrong with Elon cannot be fixed by money alone.
For us normal folks though? You just TRY to be unhappy while getting your dick sucked by a supermodel in your million dollar Ferrari parked in front of your mansion the size of a French palace. Physically impossible.
Wow. That's sad.
richest MAN in the world
Is being awfully generous to that sack of shit.
Man, my 4 year old would probably love a space themed birthday. Or dinosaurs. Or batman.
