Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire has been a really great IQ test for the general public.
You see people online who think Elon literally has a trillion dollars sitting in a bank somewhere and has chosen to just… keep it there.
These are not serious people and not worth engaging with. It’s like trying to have an intelligent discussion with a monkey.
> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO
Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.
Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.
The Elon Musk trillionaire discourse is so tiresome.
'If I was him I'd save the world!' 'If I was him everyone would be fed and housed'.
People have zero understanding of what net worth actually is. It is an accumulation of his ASSETS. The assessed value of his companies primarily and then his personal assets. Musk has less than a billion dollars in liquid cash as his entire net worth is wrapped up in his companies that employ over 150,000 people directly and millions with the trickle down from resources he buys from other companies to manufacture his creations.
Stop commenting about things you know nothing about.
He worked hard for his money. But if you know how net worth works, Elon does not have access to a trillion dollars. That's just not how it works. People complaining online about Elon not using his money for charity do not know how net worth works. This money keeps millions employed and develops new tech for our future.
@Grummz This is a huge upgrade in character art compared to some of their last characters. The fact that this person felt the need to block comments and throw in some child grooming stuff says it all.
@Ben10Burner@jaderants I'm saying this to counter what you're saying. Unfortunately, your response is just more insults. You aren't worth anyone's time with ignorant statements like these. Use your brain more when forming opinions. Maybe you won't have bad opinions eventually…
@Ben10Burner@jaderants Starting a counterpoint with an insult is loser behavior, my friend. Politics within games are fun and good for plot points. These are game-specific narratives tied to the game itself. Pushing real-world political agendas is not the same. This applies to any sides.
@OneTopicAtATime Human rights are not a thing. There are U.S. citizen rights, but making an argument solely off of so called “human rights” is unintelligent.
this isn’t true. anti-woke gamers were normal young men and women who were repeatedly force-fed pride flags in our fps games and transgender dialogue in our rpgs. devs were intentionally emasculating men and masculinizing women out of spite and blurring obvious sex markers.
for years we were growing sick of logging in for the purpose of escapism only to be met with real-world politics. we respectfully sparked conversation and raised concern towards devs on twitter then the devs would attack us, create things out of self-admitted hatred for men, tell Christians and conservatives not to play their game, etc. this was the original anti-woke gamer crowd before idiots infiltrated.
@activistJ741 I'm not trying to argue the case and I don’t know much about Airbnb, but weren't they just renting the basement? I believe the cops were only authorized to search the basement. Is it possible that the owner was still living upstairs and overheard them?