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Cash appears to have the greatest opportunity cost at the precipice of when you'll need it most.
Have been nibbling here and there of late, but the confluence around October is too incredible to ignore.
No, you don't get it.
He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.
To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.
Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".
$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12
If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.
But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.
JUST IN: Standard Chartered compares Ethereum to Amazon during the 2001 dot-com bubble burst, says ETH will catch up to internal metrics
- The ether price has fallen sharply in recent months, but the underperformance does not reflect continuing improvements in Ethereum's internal metrics, according to Standard Chartered Bank's Global Head of Digital Assets Research, Geoffrey Kendrick.
- Kendrick compared ETH to Amazon stock during the 2001 tech bubble burst, saying ETH will catch up to internal metrics and that "it is just a matter of time."
- Kendrick maintained his ether price targets of $4,000 by end-2026 and $40,000 by end-2030.
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