It’s impossible to say what anything is worth to a person who can lose 44 billion dollars and still have so much money left that the next 10 generations of their lineage won’t ever have to work again.
It’s insane to think of that as a trivial amount of money, but musk could literally lose 99% of his money and it wouldn’t impact his life at all, except for his hobby of bankrupting corporations.
stifle867@programming.dev 1 year ago
As obscenely wealthy as he is, that wealth comes from bis assets not cash in hand. $20B of the $44B paid was cash, some of which was from selling some of his Tesla shares. Further to that, Tesla stock dropped so significantly it caused his net worth to drop by a further $30B.
mriguy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So as a result he’s no longer so rich he could do it all again and still have more money than he could possibly spend in hundreds of lifetimes? No? Still super rich? Then it’s not really a meaningful distinction.
stifle867@programming.dev 1 year ago
I disagree. It’s impossible to say for sure either way but it’s plausible his personal wealth could be wiped out, could be forced to divest his stakes in his own companies, etc.
UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Which would still leave him insanely rich, so the answer you are looking for is “no, elon musk is not taking any actual personal risk here at all.”
UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Again, none of that impacts him in any way apart from losing the ability to literally just do it again.