• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Ugh… it drives me nuts!

    Musk had to borrow around $13 billion for his doomed $44 billion acquisition.

    Had he spent that $57 $44 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.

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      2 months ago

      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.

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          2 months ago

          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.

      • trolololol@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        “own capital” probably more like stocks from Tesla, I doubt any actual money moved

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          2 months ago

          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.

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            2 months ago

            Well now that you mention it I agree and feel dumb.

            Anyways, I’m still right so it means I can double down.

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        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.

      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        No, my math is just fine, it’s my reading comprehension that needs work, because I totally misunderstood what that sentence was saying.

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      2 months ago

      he might have done something worthwhile

      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.