• WashedAnus [he/him]
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      22 days ago

      Yeah, I could buy happiness for a lot of people with that money.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        22 days ago

        Or at least, you could drastically reduce the misery of a million people for a long time.

        • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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          22 days ago

          He literally has enough money to end global hunger several times over. He could reduce the misery of billions of people

          • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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            22 days ago

            Do you think we could end global hunger by throwing 200-600 billion USD at it? I feel like even if you could distribute it to all the poorest citizens of a country, $100 per person is not enough to permanently ward off food insecurity.

            I was going based off the findings that in the West at least, after about $80-90k, increased wealth no longer translates to increased subjective well-being. Then, boosting the median American worker's income (~45k) up to that level.

            • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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              22 days ago

              At minimum, it could be used to build the infrastructure necessary in the places that need it to transport and/or grow food to address root problems.

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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    22 days ago

    The mental framework that is required to accumulate so much wealth is incapable of feeling happiness.

  • GoebbelsDeezNuts [any]
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    22 days ago

    i don't understand how you could have 14 children and not have an ounce of interest in any of their lives, skill issue

    kids are funny without even trying, maybe try talking to them once and a while

    live, laugh, love but unironically

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      22 days ago

      i don't understand how you could have 14 children and not have an ounce of interest in any of their lives, skill issue

      He has a breeding fetish and treats his children as objects I'd guess.

    • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]M
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      22 days ago

      I'm sure some of the mothers don't like him, and some of the children don't like him

      he's also obviously somewhat neglectful/somewhat abusive. he's just like a bad person.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    22 days ago

    Plotting billionaire-tears's Kubler Ross stages by emoji choice:
    1.🤣
    2.😡
    3.🤑
    4.😔
    5. TBD

    Congrats melon-musk on reaching depression, I hope you never get past it

  • novibe@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    Crazy how incompetent these people are. Come on you have EIGHT HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. Just go skydiving, do a bunch of ultra pure MDMA at a festival, pay David Hockney to teach you how to paint, go on a safari, spend a week with a tribe doing ayahuasca….

        • Johnny_Arson [they/them]
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          22 days ago

          I just meant I would not want to inflict exposure to him in person on any decent people especially not indigenous people.

            • Johnny_Arson [they/them]
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              22 days ago

              Not just any Elon Musk either. Ayahuasca is not the fun kind of psychedelic, it is a sacred ritual for a reason. Imagining tripsitting Elon on the worst trip of his life. Also it isn't going to fix him just like those techbros that love psychedelics. No good can come from giving that man any psychedelics let alone that one.

    • WokePalpatine [he/him]
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      22 days ago

      What he needs is a sick custom GameCube with a silver and black colour scheme and the Twilight Mirror pattern from LoZ: TP as the jewel window on top.

      • WokePalpatine [he/him]
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        edit-2
        22 days ago

        And the Game Boy Player so he can play Pokemon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire with rumble.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    22 days ago

    I don't think he has ever actually tried to buy happiness. What he has tried to do is use his money to generate anger, misery and nonsense. He has succeeded in achieving that, both for others and himself.

    If he actually tried to buy happiness he absolutely could. With billions of dollars I could absolutely buy myself and millions of others some happiness just by putting it into projects that meaningful improve lives in an area.

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      22 days ago

      Dude could say "I'll give a hundred million dollars to each member of Congress that votes in favor of universal healthcare so long as it passes" and voila, instantaneous people's hero

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        22 days ago

        Musk, Bezos, and probably a few others we don't know the names of could end world hunger tomorrow if they wanted to. They'd just have to bribe the US government to spend something like $100B per year, which is about 1/10th of the military budget. Every day that they don't is a reminder that the bourgeois are evil.

        • Fossifoo [comrade/them]
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          22 days ago

          I'm sure he once offered some large amount of money to anybody who provides an "ernest" plan to solve world hunger and when he got called on it, he immediately used the weasel word to triple back the fuck out.

          Looked it up and of course it was just a tax scam for his "foundation" that does nothing but profit him: https://truthout.org/articles/musk-pledged-6b-to-solve-world-hunger-but-gave-it-to-his-own-foundation-instead/

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      22 days ago

      He could use his wealth to solve the housing crisis overnight if he wanted to. Imagine housing for all, a right for everyone, you'd go down as a champion of the people. But nope, instead he spews poison at trans people and stirs shit with chuds.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        22 days ago

        Yeah exactly. There's a lot of ways to use this money to buy happiness, he chooses to buy unhappiness and succeeds at it.

    • aebletrae [she/her]
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      22 days ago

      I don't think he has ever actually tried to buy happiness.

      Yeah, he wants to buy happiness but he doesn’t really want to pay full price.

      Because it’s not the case that money can’t be spent in a process that yields happiness, it’s that money alone isn’t sufficient. Happiness is the return on investments in kindness and other genuine acts of love, but he only has money and spite, which don't foot the bill.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    22 days ago

    Yeah community buys happiness. That's why everyone who alienates their community is miserable

  • aebletrae [she/her]
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    22 days ago

    What a loser. Kindness is practically free, yet he still can’t afford it.

  • Hohsia [any]
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    22 days ago

    You have to be insanely mentally disturbed to be unable to comprehend how you could be a hero to mankind if you simply gave some of your money away. Like, a minuscule amount.

    He is not only a sociopath but also a fucking dipshit. Apartheid blood money will really take you to the mountain, but this mothefucker is acting like he’s stuck at the top or some shit

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    22 days ago

    especially when your idea of happiness is to go to epstein's island to buy sex with trafficked minors, but you're such an unpleasant pedo elite, even the other unpleasant pedo elites don't want to deal being around you.

    poor ultra douchebag elon can't catch a break. [sad trombone]

    • kristina [she/her]
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      22 days ago

      Dude can do anything and chooses to post on Twitter and play video games every day and wonders why he feels like dogshit

      • tane@lemy.lol
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        21 days ago

        Hey man I play vidya all day and I’m pretty happy. It’s probably the twitter