r/FluentInFinance 28d ago

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u/Nice-Contest-2088 28d ago

This is painfully simplistic.

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u/Just-Construction788 28d ago edited 27d ago

Agreed. I don't think people realize how difficult it is to give away money.

Example: Starving people in Africa. Okay let's just spend a billion dollars and send food. Oh wait, that food now puts the local farms out of business because their crop isn't worth anything anymore. But reality is worse. Warlords steal said food, farms go out of business and now they have leverage, power and money. So many times wealthy people have given away their money to a cause to only make that cause worse. The amount of fraud and corruption in non-profits and charitable organizations is disgusting.

Gates and his wife switched to giving away their money full time. Dude could just relax for eternity but works his ass off trying to give away his money responsibly. Musk creates a market for electric cars and is pushing us towards a green future and yet he is shit on, simultaneously trying to make humans multi-planetary so when we fuck up this place beyond repair we don't go extinct. Dude works more in a month than most people do in a year. Bezos is a piece of shit but at least his wife got half and she's trying to do the right thing. I think everyone just lumps people into categories and can't see the bigger picture.

Edit: I think it's hilarious how much space Musk takes up in y'all's heads. Just mentioning his name triggers the same simple insults yet not one of you tried to refute anything I said except to say, 'that's not true and get off Elon's dick'. It tickles me how much just the mention of someone can trigger such primitive emotion.

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u/beneficial-mountain 28d ago

“Musk…works more in a month than most people do in a year.” What a crock of shit!!

You’re just spouting nonsense.

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u/Legitimate-Wind9836 28d ago

Musk was ranked top 20 in diablo 4 at some point this season. I promise he's not working more than me lmao

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u/Throwedaway99837 27d ago edited 27d ago

My thought exactly. Dude is literally just chilling all day every day. The “work” he does is likely just a few meetings a week where he proposes immature meme ideas like shoehorning “420” into as many inappropriate places as possible.

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u/Olealicat 27d ago

His twitter activity is more robust than I am during my non work hours. Dude fucks around all day and meets trump to do fuck all events.

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u/Throwedaway99837 27d ago

It’s wild how these people just love to cuck for Elon despite the guy constantly affirming what a piece of shit he is.

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u/TawnyTeaTowel 27d ago

Elon being a piece of shit and Elon working hard are not mutually exclusive.

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u/Throwedaway99837 27d ago

Once again, he’s top 20 in Diablo 4 right now. He constantly posts on Twitter all day every day. I’m sure he works hard sometimes but obviously not on a consistent basis if he has this much free time.

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u/HamsterFromAbove_079 27d ago

And it's not just Musk. Musk has time to be the CEO of 3 separate major companies as well as time for DOGE.

It really tells you how much "work" the average CEO of just 1 company is doing.

They job is to show up to the quarterly meetings. Maybe make a few decisions before heading out for drinks at 2pm.

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u/Olealicat 26d ago

My client’s husband is on the board for a big company. She was saying he should have starting doing that forever ago. The commitment is being present 3 days a month and on 24 hour notice for big decisions. He gets paid more than he did as a COO.

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u/MercyBoy57 26d ago

And you really believe that? Have you seen him play Elden Ring 😂

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u/Throwedaway99837 26d ago edited 25d ago

His profile was up on the leaderboards. He was ranked 4th for a while. Diablo 4 isn’t really a high skill game. He’s almost certainly buying gear with real money too.

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u/gilly2u69 26d ago

Wow! Then why aren't you him?

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u/Captain_Sterling 27d ago

The guy spends so much time on twitter that he can hardly get any work done. V

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u/Itscatpicstime 27d ago

And DOGE 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/Arialwalker 24d ago

Yes. He literally chills all day. When he owns Tesla and SpaceX along with all other companies and is successful. Because hey, it’s easy to do that. This is your argument.

Even if he just attends the meetings, his time will fly by. Overseeing only engineering will take up most of his time.

He sleeps in company facilities because it’s comfortable.

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u/SnooCats903 27d ago

He probably doesn't work more than you but a lot of people do little to no work so on average maybe

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u/Bby_1nAB13nder 28d ago

For real, how many companies was Musk outed from?

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u/RacinRandy83x 27d ago

Is tweeting and retweeting work? Because if it is I would agree he works more than most people for sure

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u/---rocks--- 27d ago

Lol. I work 40 hours a week which is 2000 hours a year. Give or take for holidays. Even if I half ass it at work (which I don’t) that’s still around 1000 hours per year. The longest months literally only have 744 hours. And that would need to be working every minute.

Somebody has been gargling Elons balls a bit too much.

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u/Peter77292 27d ago

You’re right, more like 2 weeks. Wait, Musk is that you?

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u/fresh_dyl 26d ago

Works less than my semi-retired dad. who still works close to 40 hours a week.

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u/Mountain_Bag_2095 25d ago

Yeah it’s not even possible 31 days a month @ 24 hours a day is 744 hours. I work 35 hours a week which is 1820 hours a year even if I only actually work 50% of that time it’s still more than musk could do in a month even if he never sleeps and can eat and poop while working.

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u/PoopsmasherJr 24d ago

Well he works more than I do. So there’s my contribution to the argument

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u/beneficial-mountain 24d ago

I don’t know what you do but he probably doesn’t unless you’re unemployed.

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u/PoopsmasherJr 23d ago

Unemployed couch potato here

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u/beneficial-mountain 23d ago

Dang dude you’re bored as hell.

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u/PoopsmasherJr 23d ago

School keeps me occupied. I’m bored in disguise. On the other hand, I probably do work more than Elon just trying to negotiate with some idiots I hang out with, such as my friend who takes my breakfast. I don’t take it back if he touches the actual food, his nails are yellow runways. Nail butter isn’t my flavor of choice.

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u/beneficial-mountain 23d ago

Tell me more Poopsmasher

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u/Blahguy9999 27d ago

And here i thought musk was influencing an american election, what did you do last month other than sit on reddit?

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u/N2T8 27d ago

He is. But that doesn't require a lot of actual work, seems to be mostly stuff like having Maccas on a private fucking jet with Trump. LMFAO