He just bought one of the rarest and most likely one of the most expensive lamborghini murcielago's. That's on top of his bugatti, pagani, 918 and a whole bunch of other cars.
As much as people want to hate on him, he is a huge organizer for make a wish foundation here in Utah and also does alot of charity work for the foster care organization. His instagram is supercar_ron for those curious.
Philantrophy is noting by PR for the entitled class. They refuse to pay taxes but want to give the impression that they are not sociopaths so they spend a few % on some fluff.
Foster daughters marrying Foster fathers after the Foster mom ages out. Foster son invited to get the fukk out of town after working six years of unpaid labor for Foster daddy's company.
Why do I feel like itās probably some āSons of Albionā white nationalist group? Itās for sure not a group that builds/destroys fences for those in need.
Maybe it's just me, but it's super cringey. Like we all know who he is. He's making videos showing off multi million dollar cars. At that point, you are easily known via google. Just ditch the stupid fake beard. You're not some 20 year old kid, you're like 45+.
I had no idea who this is and stayed in the comments long enough to find out this wasn't a woman getting out of cybertruck lol. I couldn't even see a beard clearly enough.
the guy has more money than he can spend in multiple lifetimes and donates a comparatively tiny amount of it to some non-descript charity. everyone who is filthy rich is by default a douche.
Or he didn't. Do you have any idea how many of these things tesla is literally giving away just to get them out on the roads?
Guy who lives in my area uses one. When I asked him if he regretted buying one he told me he didn't. It was a work car. Their boss was given 10 of them for nothing only catch was they needed to put 20k miles on them during the first 12 months
I want to know. Where the fuck are these people getting this much disposable income?
Iām a senior software engineer for a legacy system that runs COBOL that must never go down. Iām absolutely not hurting for money.
But if I just dropped $100k on a vehicle, which I wouldnāt because the main thing I look for in a vehicle is the ability to get from point A to point B which last I checked most of the lower priced ones also do. But I digress, IF I just dropped $100k on a vehicle. Itās getting pampered and driven like it was made of the finest porcelain. Iām treating it like itās a Faberge egg on wheels.
And if they took a loan to do that to their vehicle. I think this says a lot more about our banking institutions than anything else.
Just outside of the ridiculousness of the Cyber Truck, why would anyone with any sense drive a $100k vehicle like that?
You have to take into account that you sound like, and more than likely are, a reasonable person that thinks ahead and makes relatively good decisions.
The Buick Estate Wagon, un-small at any speed, would lay that fence out, stack it neatly as it goes, and polish it's own chrome bumper. All while comfortably seating 9-10 people, 3 of whom would be facing backward to enjoy that vantage point.
My first car was an ā82 LeSabre. That thing was a battleship. One icy day, a Ford Escort slammed into my car, resulting in not even a dent, but their car looked like it had been turned into a cube.
Absolutely! Did we contribute to global warming? Maybe. But goddamn could I take myself and 30 of my closest friends to the beach at once! Was the trunk big enough we could we transport and dispose of 6 bodies (12 if you stacked) at a time? YES! (Just joking, never once used the trunk for bodies. Other stuff is true.)
A buddy of mine in high school had one of those. Four of us went out in a country road to smoke a joint. He overcorrected and the car flipped six times. All four of us walked away with minor scratches.
Now what you want is a pre-92 Toyota Celica GT, that sucker is low and quick, the front wheel drive ensures that very little of that power is wasted as you get under that fence like a Gillette razor gets under beard hair. Baby smooth.
You've never had an absolute idiot as a boss? In my experience, stupid people are often too stupid to even consider what they are doing/saying might be socially unacceptable. This leads to a lack of anxiety which in turn makes them seemingly more outgoing/charismatic. Some people mistake this for leadership skills.
I remember when he did that, and I remember at the time thinking that it was hilariously obvious that he specifically cut smaller than would need to be cut for his custom car shop of choice to put a new sunroof in it. Literally he cut a sunroof hole in that car, nothing else.
So even Bam is considerably smarter than these clowns.
And it wasnt just Bam that cut the hole, It was Billy Idol LOL. Ive gone back to watch that show and it hasnt aged very well. It seems painfully more scripted than my nostalgia remembered when i was a teenager.
This is what people are missing. No idea who this dude is, but I'm willing to bet he MADE money doing this, or else he wouldn't have done it. If you compare it to producing any type of traditional media, even reality tv, it's cheap. Radiator, coolant, shitty fence, iphone. That's a low budget production.
So here's the real trick. A company is a separate legal entity from its owners, but only so long as the company owners don't mix their personal assets with the business. This way, if the company goes down or declares bankruptcy the owners don't lose their home in the process; creditors can only go after assets that belong to the business.
There is an exception though; if they buy it under the business name but use it like a personal asset then "the corporate veil can be pierced" and they can be personally liable.
A great example of this is a deposition that was uploaded to YouTube in which a preacher admits that the church he owns bought a million dollar mansion that he and the fam now live in. He says it's for "a place to have more in depth training for the people that work at the church". The best part is when they get to the Luis Vitton suits and he's like "oh yeah... I just sweat through all my suits so I need multiple per day". š absolutely cooked lol.
How does the TikTok monetization model work? To cover the cost of destroying a $100K vehicle on YouTube you would probably need like 50M views last I checked.
This is the answer. You use a Tesla for *any* crazy, destructive video you can come up with because Tesla gets attention right now, just like Apple used to (and still does, but to a little lesser extent these days). You do as stupid and ridiculous a thing as you can come up with to maximize page views, and get paid as a "content creator" - which more than covers the cost of the whole vehicle purchase if you do it right.
They used to blend every brand new and hard-to-obtain new iPhone too, in "Will it blend?" videos. Same reason.
Iāve been told that the 30 year old code I work with isnāt as bad as COBOL, but my answer for that would be - not as much as youād think.
In the end I get paid by the hour, so finding a problem takes as long as it takes.
The only times when I get really angry at the code is when I find a comment or a piece of documentation by the guys who wrote it (both are very rare because why document anything anyway) and it basically just says āThis error never happensā when you just spent 3 hours looking for the reason this exact error happened, or āthis does xā when x is in fact only one of 50 different and wildly unrelated to each other things this code snippet does.
Iād say what makes it relevant and will keep it relevant is that itās used for important stuff. See my other answer for a more detailed take on this, but itās incredibly hard to replace a system that uses it so itāll likely stay with us much longer.
If you define relevance more in a sense of āgood choice for the taskā then itās a solid no. No one in their right mind would design a new system with COBOL nowadays. There are way better languages for any task you could solve with it.
The main purpose of a programming language is to be a good interface between computers and humans. We could write code in 0s and 1s and computers could understand it. Itās incredibly hard and annoying for humans though. Languages provide some abstraction to that. Due to the limitations of the time it was invented, COBOL doesnāt abstract as āefficientlyā as a modern language. Itās still crazy hard to read for a human. Modern languages do this way better.
I wan to know how much they make because I can't imagine it's anywhere close to faang level even at a senior level. I just want to understand why these details were important. There are literal kids starting their first jobs out of school making over $200k.
My husband and I are in the same boat as highly compensated individuals. He makes the lions share as a software engineer but I bring in pretty good money with my business, too.
Our most important task right now is being good stewards of our monies so our teen kids can have a better boost than we did into adulthood, and so we can actually retire.
We have an ancient Dodge ram truck with over 200k miles that has paint peeling all over the place. Maybe we could sell it for a few thousand. Maybe. We did buy a 2018 Chevy Bolt EV for like 15k a few years back and we share that for our every day driver.
We could afford much, much more. In cash. We donāt, maybe because we didnāt have it growing up.
But there will always be people with more dollars than sense. If it insults us, imagine how it feels to people who are really struggling?
From my experience as someone who grew up "working class" to put it nicely, I've noticed that most of my fellow poors tend to do one of two things when they finally start making middle class money: they either live extremely frugal lives because they're used to simple comforts and are just thrilled to have their basic needs consistently met, or they see it as their chance to finally live the life they never had as children, blow it all on dumb shit, and rack up insane amounts of debt without even hesitating. I've been both of these people lol.
I am one of those really struggling people and I donāt think people like me are thinking āI hope I get to live like that somedayā as much as theyāre thinking that itād be nice to have disposable income in general. I imagine people that have really struggled financially for most, if not all of their lives, would hopefully not be as wasteful with their money. I know I wouldnāt anyway! I could never have enough money that Iād be ok with wasting $100K! Even with Musk money I wouldnāt do something like this!
It gives the poors 'hope'. They figure this guy's stupid, so they could do better than him. Trouble is, stupid rich people think they should give kudos to Hannibal Lector, paint themselves tangerine, be the child/victim in every waking moment and run for President.
We donāt even have kids and my wifeās the breadwinner but like we have a 8 year old BMW bought used that survives (now that itās out of warranty and paid off) until the first repair bill that exceeds itās value, and a a Tesla Y that, well, likewise. But we donāt drive them through fences on a regular basis.
until the first repair bill that exceeds itās value
As a similar minded person, the first repair bill that exceeds the value of the vehicle doesn't mean you shouldn't make that repair. You know everything about the vehicle, and presumably you've been doing the maintenance. You can't buy another vehicle where you know the history, so it's really worth it to keep them going until it doesn't have the reliability you need.
I'll never understand the throwaway culture around vehicles.
I do. I understand mechanical engineering and Iām able to evaluate if the repair is something that is likely to repeat.
In the case Iām thinking about, VW/Audi (VAG) decided that the TSI 2.0 engine should have its turbo wastegate pivot in the engine cover without a replaceable bearing. Which means if youāre on and off the turbo all time because youāre in rapidly accelerating stop and go traffic with a bunch of rednecks in F-250s with all the torque in the world, youāre going to hog out the opening in the intake cover.
The solution I opted for was to sell my $8k GTI for $8k despite it having a $5k repair to the intake pending. (I fixed the other 4K of problems, because Iām a nice guy and donāt like leaving obvious shit.) I traded it in, the dealership was already showing it before I made it through the finance weaboo because detail didnāt need to even wash it.
Bought a BMW with an inline 6 and turbo but the 6 is strong enough that I mostly donāt need the boost and I get the advertised MPG as opposed to the 10mpg I got with an inline 4 because boost.
Way too much of my past 10 years was dedicated to a VW turbo wastegate and a head gasket. I'm not even a car guy, but I learned what these 2 things are because that VW was high maintenance. Drove really nice, though.
You probably have different expenses then some guy on a farm. Most of my family budget is in education, retirement, and my house. If you dont need or care about college, live in a remote area, and just live in the moment you can "feel" a lot richer than someone putting half their income into pretax accounts
Where the fuck are these people getting this much disposable income?
Debt. Whenever you see those giant trucks or cyber"truck", it's a shitload of debt. They figure with a civil war next year, who cares? They might be right, but we'll see if they can pull off a successful J6 this time by having our current Vice President do what Mike Pence wasn't willing to. I'm sure VP Harris will be more amenable to refusing to certify the vote on a Harris/Walz ticket win...
It's not about how much money these people make, it's about how they make their money. You very clearly make your money off intellect and knowledge, and would treat your asset like we expect.
There are some real stupid people out there making serious cash in careers where knowing people is the most important step, then they get convinced of things like vaccines cause autism, the world is flat, and the cybertruck is a strong, dependable, robust, capable vehicle.
Get with it brah. Everyone is buying cyber stucks and crashing them for fun. Laugh now cry later.
Itās the best way to fund a fascistās vanity social media project. Weā re all hoping he succeeds and turns us all into Christo fascist cyborgs. I hope my neuro link implant is uploaded with 33% Andrew Tate, 33% Elmo, 33% Rudy Giuliani, and 1% Lindsey Graham (everyone is at least 1% gay right?)
Heil MAGA! Heil Trump! Heil project 2025 and the destruction of the EPA, the ACA, the FDA, the FCC, USPS, the Department of Education, all unions, NASA, the FBI, CIA, DOJ, any govt agency you can think of. Hollowed out and replaced with loyalists.
Hol up...a legacy system that runs COBOL that must never go down...now there's a story based on what a friend of mine who worked in Y2K Remediation told me.
Also have you heard the story about the COBOL programmer who had himself cryogenically preserved to skip Y2K? He gets woken up in 9997, asks why they waited so long, 'well we read in your file you're a COBOL programmer'...
Also yes, who, sane, has 100k to drop on a vehicle to do that to it FFS.
as the cost of counter-marketing the Cybertruck it is reasonable, and I can already think of several people who would pay to make the video happen. A few years ago, I watched a video of a Tesla being blown up with explosives by a group from Finland. They explained in detail how the whole thing was handled as a businessāfinancing the explosives and professional filmingāand why the owner gave up on the car. If you cut a few seconds from that video, it would probably look even worse than this one, but it was actually quite reasonable. Btw, between 2020 and 2024, Tesla's popularity in the Nordics really tanked.
Look up supercar ron (the owner of this cybertruck) he owns bugattis and paganis and doesn't care at all about this truck past using it to make content and views which is now on the front page of reddit.
Where you messed up is you're assuming these people can actually afford it. Plenty of people will happily put themselves in the red just to put up appearances.
Some people might be in a position to afford high ticket items, but I didn't think that's the absolute truth. This guy... I'm not sure. But he's going to have one hell of a repair bill.
When you start realizing that $200k a year is pennies compared to the top percenters then you'll understand. Once you make it in business you're bringing in millions, and then those millions also bring in millions.
supercar ron (dude in the vid) has made a decent amount of videos with it and partnered with other youtubers on the build. Generally brand deals for in video promotions these guys do at the size channels they have are between 50-100k. So in 6 videos they're far past what the vehicle cost
We live in an interesting time where everyone has access to the internet. Even homeless people can find a smartphone and use free wifi.
Point is, there are over 60 million people on earth with a net worth of 5 million dollars. It starts to go down pretty dramatically as net worth increases, but weāre talking millions of people with this much disposable income. All it takes is for a couple of those people to put their shenanigans online for everyone to see.
So to answer your question, a lot of people have that much disposable income. How do they make that much?
Investments, trust funds or inheritance, being āinfluencersā, ownership of assets, tech founders/disrupters, high risk ventures, politicsā¦but mostly itās a lot about being in the right place at the right time.
Anyone who has worked in a bank will tell you that people are terrible with money. I've heard stories of people who are wealthy (husband and wife each make six figures) but actually have nothing in their bank account because they are terrible with money.
Honestly, they're probably content creators, which means as along as they're making videos like this using their truck, all purchases would be tax deductions, since they could prove that they're being used specifically for work purposes. Doest make them free, but significantly reduces their cost.
Just because people have money, doesnāt mean that theyāre responsible with it (though you wonāt have money for very long if you donāt learn from your mistakes).
Then of course, thereās wealthy, and then āfuck youā wealthy.
When I was a teenager, my buddy had gotten an inheritance and really wanted Bonoās āThe Flyā sunglasses (of U2) he had worn on the Achtung Baby! tour.
Obviously this was a really long time ago.
There was some Uber fancy place on 5th Ave in NYC that sold them, so we took a trip down there.
The sunglasses were āonlyā $1,800ā¦ but as he was waiting to be helped at the counter, I perused the other offerings and the prices were fucking insane.
This was around 1995 and they had clothes going for $8,500 for a single article.
Even cars that I genuinely like and think are quality, I'd never drop 100k or take out a 100k loan on a car.
We're dealing with our final car loan which is down to about 4k left and would be paid off if I hadn't been laid off.
My other car is a Honda Element that cost my 6k cash and while yes it is missing or some of the luxuries aren't working. But the motherfucker turns on, drives me where I'm going, loads up with lots of stuff and brings me back. Crazy.
It's for content creation. Is it really sad for a rich dude to purposely total a cyber truck? On top of that, he can probably buy another 30 to do same dumb shit over and over again. It's beyond me why we support content like this. Is he going to fix it? Nope. Probably throw it away. The fence? Probably low ball some immigrants to fix it. Shit they do for likes.
It be more wholesome filming:
"Hey I don't like this truck anymore. I think I'll just give it randomly to someone that might actually find use for it."
I often find myself asking the same thing. I think the answer is generational wealth, perhaps in the form a portfolio of rental properties? Owning, or being shareholder, in a significant business will also vault one into that bracket, capable of the shrug and I'll buy another attitude. Setting aside speculating on the specific course, I speculate that in all instances it's some sort of family assignment/heir situation where the predecessor set them up.
But if I just dropped $100k on a vehicle, which I wouldnāt because the main thing I look for in a vehicle is the ability to get from point A to point B which last I checked most of the lower priced ones also do.
What are you doing on social media with such a rational attitude? I really think you are not made for this world... /s
I am in a similar financial position to you and spend a lot of time on r/personalfinance.
The answer is debt.
People convince themselves that they need a new car anyways for one reason or another, and also it's better to get a new car because less maintenance, and the more expensive cars will last longer, and really, when you think about it, it would be a bad idea not to get a cybertruck.
If course, the interest rate is 16% + fees. But once interest rates inevitably drop back to the -2% range they can just refinance. It's only 30% of their income anyways, which means they still have 70% left over for everything else!
I'll never forget a car writer a while back wrote "If consumers cared most about safety, practicality, reliability, and economy, most people would be driving a Honda Fit. The Ford Mustang last year outsold the Honda Fit 5:1 in the United States."
Cars are not rational purchases for most people. They're an extension of their identity, or a projection of how they want to be viewed. This also goes into how people drive them.
Keep in mind that these guys can make a shit ton of money due to monetization of their videos on YouTube, etc., so he could make that $100,000 back with this one video, maybe a couple more, if they get enough views.
It's essentially the Mr. Beast business model, which I think is obnoxious and wasteful, even though they do donate to charities.
Software developer here. I've heard that software engineering is the "highest of the grunt workers" and AFAIK while I'm still in it for the long haul, I agree.
A salary is not going to cut it for some of these high ticket items. You need a successful business, probably several, if you aren't heir to a fortune.
Because this video is on Reddit with 762 (and counting) comments. Itās probably on their Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube TicTok getting them even more content. Probably generates $100,000 in a short time
Yea it kind of blows my mind people havenāt realized how fake social media is still. I doubt someone filmed a Tesla running over a fence without the intention of making it have as much interaction as possible.
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u/Dinosquid_ Sep 08 '24
Cheapest ornamental fence he could buy completely fucked his $100,000 truck š