Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims
wildcardology@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ok. Musk offered the kid $5,000 to delete his account, the kid countered with $50,000. Musk refused so he spent $44 billion instead to get rid of the account.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s the definition of “fuck you” money.
zorlan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah $50k isn’t even that much to Musk, what an idiot.
Art3sian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He’s still worth $200B.
Spending $44B? $88B? $100B. Doesn’t matter. The dude never, ever has to think about money again. If he lives to 85 and doesn’t earn another cent between now and then, he can splash 6 billion dollars a year every year until he dies.
To give you some understanding of that kind of money, he could roughly buy two Lamborghini Diablos every single day for the rest of his life.
tomatolung@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Mind you that’s mostly non-liquid accounting of his stock and assets. Not that he’ll have to worry about what he spends, but it’s not cash in the bank billions.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s the point.
He could burn 40 billion buying Twitter just to spite a kid over 50 grand.
He could spend 50 grand every minute for 7 and a half years and still have 3 billion dollars.