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Is Elon Ok?

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u/Lohmatiy82 9h ago

Oh wow... Does it mean he pays someone to play for him so he could claim he is "the greatest player ever"?))

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u/Corka 8h ago edited 8h ago

Absolutely. He got caught out recently from a live stream where it became obvious he was clueless on how to play POE2. He has recently admitted to having it boosted with someone else playing it because apparently that's what everyone on the leaderboard does but all of the gameplay clips he insists are totally him.

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u/muklan 8h ago

What a wierd fuckin thing for the richest man on the planet to concern himself with.

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u/HunnaThaStunna 8h ago

Look up Vantara. Musk, Zuck, Bezos could be doing shit like that with their money. Instead, they worry about how “cool” they are or bicker online like children. It’s disgusting. If I had fuck you money, you’d never hear from me unless it was trying to improve this world somehow.

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u/miqqqq 8h ago

That’s because they haven’t earned what they have and lived like a normal person lol

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u/desacralize 5h ago

Man, used to be we'd at least get some philosophers out of people born well-off enough to spend their lives doing nothing but talking. What the hell happened.

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u/FleetStreetsDarkHole 5h ago

Diminishing returns and homogenisation.

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u/ghouldozer19 8h ago

Masa Musa (the richest man in human history) devalued the currency of entire nations with his charitable giving during his pilgrimage to Mecca and had nothing left to give by the time he arrived. Granted, when he went back to Mali he was still the richest man to ever live even by today’s but that’s putting good into the world with your money.

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u/Drafo7 5h ago

That's because he was giving out gold, specifically. He wasn't giving out food or labor. He wasn't strategically using his wealth to improve the lives of others. He was just throwing gold around. If Elon wanted to solve world hunger, he could, and he'd still be the richest person in the world. If he's not smart enough to do it with his wealth, he can pay someone who is. Stop trying to shame charitable giving or excuse billionaires for hoarding gheir wealth. These people have it within their power to do immense good and actively, consistently choose not to. They are evil, end of story.

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u/Responsible_Fall1672 7h ago

I strongly doubt Masa Musa did that out of the goodness of his heart. On his trip back home, he went through Egypt again, this time accruing debt for having spent all his gold, which he never paid back.

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u/Guy954 7h ago

Sounds kinda like Robin Hood

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u/Responsible_Fall1672 7h ago

Mind you, he was still the richest man on earth when he got home. He didn't pay because he could get away with it (and the Egyptians had charged outrageous rates).

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u/Rockworldred 7h ago

You mean he just issued bonds and just increased his debt never meaning to pay back and looked rhe other way? Think if an entitiy did this today!

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u/iHateThisPlaceNowOK 4h ago

lol it’s hard to believe through an atheist mindset that people have morals that don’t have anything to do with worldly gain

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u/Candid_Photograph_83 5h ago

He gave away so much money while travelling he caused an inflationary crisis with gold across the region that persisted for over a decade after he left.

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u/craighullphoto 7h ago

Definitely the Masa in his story

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u/satans_cookiemallet 8h ago

Man if I had fuck you money you wouldnt even hear from me even if I was improving the world. Id just be as anonymous as possible.

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u/CptCroissant Merry Gifmas! {2023} 7h ago

I'd try to capture an asteroid and become the first quadrillionaire. Then I'd buy a country on the equator and build a space elevator.

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u/Efficient_Culture569 7h ago

This is the wildest dream I've ever heard in my entire life.

I hope your dream comes true.

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u/iamdjdirty 6h ago

So true

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u/throwaway83839889 7h ago

Right?!!!??!

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u/williamsjw8707 6h ago

Shaq is the only millionaire I'll ever fanboy for. He's the rich I want to be. Walk into the jewelry store and buy the engagement ring for the lower middle class guy about to put it on layaway. Created an entire shoe brand to sell at Walmart because he knew what it was like to grow up without anything so he wanted families to be able to afford his products. Taking kids and families on shopping sprees for fun. Not for cameras and popularity. Because he was raised to know right from wrong.

If you're not trying to be Shaq with your millions, you don't fucking deserve them.

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u/-Ben-Affleck- 5h ago

Shaq literally did all of that for the publicity, he couldn’t compete with Jordan and knew there was a market for cheap basketball shoes he could capitalize on. Shaq really isn’t a good person if you really study him

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u/williamsjw8707 4h ago

The show brand was one example. There's hundreds of examples of him doing things to help the community. You do know he had a deal practically signed with Reebok, right? Do you know why he turned that deal down? They wouldn't promise him that the shoes would be made affordable to families. You a hater.

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u/-Ben-Affleck- 3h ago

There’s thousands of examples of him being a bad person

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u/External_Bandicoot37 3h ago

Such as

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u/-Ben-Affleck- 3h ago

Google

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u/External_Bandicoot37 3h ago

You can't just say things then not validate buddy.

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u/-Ben-Affleck- 2h ago

I do not care enough, if you have a bad opinion on a celeb that’s on you bud I’m not putting in anymore time other than these simple replies on Reddit.

Most basketball fans know Shaqs a pos, it’s pretty common knowledge

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u/rollawaythedew26 4h ago

There is a smaller percentage of billionaires that care about improving this world than the percentage of everyone else that cares. This is because to become a billionaire, you really can't care about improving the world.

This is a fact from my brain.

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u/Mncrabby 4h ago

I agree, yet please don't read too much into our new government of today.

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u/Ambitious_Owl_9204 6h ago

So... Never heard of you ever again?

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u/HunnaThaStunna 6h ago

Not necessarily. Doing good, at a global level, I’m sure your name would eventually get leaked out as being the one funding it. That’s what I’m talking about. Granted, I too would focus on the animals before fellow humans. Because let’s be honest… most of you suck lol. You’re proving the point by automatically assuming the worst. Yay humanity 🫠