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What a load of trash.
Musk tried to artificially raise the stock price by speculating, and was legally forced to make good on his advances lest he face a bunch of lawsuits
To put 44 billion into perspective, if each dollar was 1 second of time:
40,000 seconds is about 11 hours
4 million seconds is about 46 days.
44 billion seconds is about 1268 years.