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• Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No but the original is true as well, and is better at making the point you want to make.

  • If you have a net worth of $10k, you’re $990k to go (or a 100 x multiple) to one million.

  • To be a millionaire again, Musk would need to be worth $778.01 billion less or worth 1/780th what he is right now.

  The original message: “What many people only ever dream of achieving is so far beneath the ultra-rich it would be laughable if not for the tragedy”

  Your message: “Ordinary people are poorer than elon musk” (Duh)

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  • bravot10@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1/780th? You’re off by a factor of 1000 here

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    • Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That would be to get to a $ 1 million, but musk would cease to be a billionaire at $ 999.99 million that’s the “close” side of millionaire to him. 1/780000th would be to get into the region of a normal upper-middle class American.

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I disagree. It’s a struggle to climb up, but an easy tumble to the bottom. Becoming homeless is not difficult when you aren’t making millions on interest.

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  • myotheraccount@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You don’t stop being a millionaire when you have more than one million. Thus Elon Musk is a millionaire.

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  • Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    no thats simply not true they’re are way more homeless people then even millionaires in the U.S.

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    • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The original meme says “technically”, it’s talking about numbers, that’s it. Your bias toward the embarrassed millionaire trope led you to miss the point.

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    • TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It sounds like what you wanted your message to be is the people are closer to being homeless than to being a millionaire? You might need to reread your meme, because that’s not what the edit makes it say

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    • TheYojimbo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What about what he said isn’t true ? Both things are true. And the ratio between millionaires and homeless has nothing to do with it. A millionaire is closer to being homeless than elon musk being millionaire.

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    • Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      • US homeless population: 770,000
      • US millionaire population: 6.9 million

      Stats from statista, and scrutinisable but ballpark accurate. Is 770,000 much too high? yes.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m fully willing to believe Elon Musk will officially become a trillionaire, go on a bender, get lost, and be homeless for - like - a week.

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  • Soulg@ani.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Musk could actually go completely destitute and have nothing and people/banks would just fucking give him money so he’d be rich again. Maybe not a billion but certainly many millions.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The real secret to wealth. Just have a back line into the Fed Credit Window.

      Any dipshit can become a billionaire while paying the prime rate on unlimited borrowed money

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just want him to have a huge ketamine party in his hot tub.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Would solve a lot of problems.

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