• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Ugh… it drives me nuts!

    Musk had to borrow around $13 billion for his doomed $44 billion acquisition.

    Had he spent that $57 $44 billion on developing space hardware instead of going insane and squandering it on social media bullshit, he might have done something worthwhile. I mean… fifty seven billion! What even is that much money? He could have had his own space station for that much money! He could fly up there for weekends, just for funzies.

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      2 months ago

      That $13 billion is part of the $44 billion, you don’t add them together.

      He spent $31 billion of his own capital, and borrowed $13 billion to cover the rest.

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      2 months ago

      he might have done something worthwhile

      No, he wouldn’t have. Musk is an incompetent billionaire parasite, even more incompetent than the average billionaire parasite, and would have simply squandered his ill-gotten money on something else.