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[–] milkytoast@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

shit I could spend 10b of his money in record time! gimme 24 hours

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Would love to see someone actually try to spend 10b in 24 hours without nation level infrastructure.

[–] milkytoast@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

honestly would be difficult lol

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At what point does Amazon stops letting you buy things?

[–] milkytoast@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

i guess well find out!

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Buy an airport, airline and a pacific island.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not in 24 hours, from an unknown person, in unmarked bills

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So you're saying that people trust Elon?

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

More like know him

But I doubt even he can buy that stuff in 24 hours. There is a lot of paperwork that take weeks.

[–] Fosheze@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Clearly you've never played genshin impact.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You clearly don't comprehend just how much one billion is.

[–] milkytoast@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

nah I'd just give 1b each to like ten charities and call it a day

I know I can't actually spend 10b lol

[–] DavLemmyHav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Thats like… three rtx 4090s right?

[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can only do $2B, sorry.

[–] milkytoast@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

gotta step up your game

[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The way I see it, Musk is only going to provide the investment if it fits into his investment portfolio strategy. With $2 billion, I would give $1 billion to charities, and the other $1 billion I would use to purchase as many American Southeastern coast beach houses as possible. I would sell the beach houses to climate denialists at half-off, instantly losing $500 million in the process. I'd keep the $500 million from the house sales to myself, because Musk knows that some money has to be kept to keep the lights on. The purchasers of the houses would slowly watch as their new investments into their houses literally goes into the ground (er, or oceans, as it is in this case).

I figure Musk can't resist an offer this good. My genius then continues to go unchallenged, except for Musk, who can somehow tank investments faster than this.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

The way I see it, Musk is only going to provide the investment if it fits into his investment portfolio strategy.

Well, and sometimes barely even that. He was desperately shuffling around capital trying to pony up when Twitter called him on his overly generous offer to buy the company. He simply didn't have enough liquid assets to do so.

[–] MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Don't do it! Flood insurance is cheap because it's subsidized by the US government. Those houses should be demolished.