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  • Etterra@discuss.onlinetoMemes@lemmy.mlOnce you realise
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    7 days ago

    It’s consistent within their own headcannon. If you believe the world will end in 10 years, you’re going to do things to prepare for that short term timeline to ensure your own survival, place in the afterlife, standard of living, or whatever. Although if there is an afterlife, these assholes ain’t going to the good one lol.

    They have zero interest in long-term planning and helping others. Well, Elon might have some, the way he’s Nazi-tier obsessed with reproduction quality and quantity.

    But in their minds, why bother taking care of Earth when it’ll be ashes one way or another within their lifetimes? It’s sociopathic and cruel, but they’re so detached that they can’t even comprehend how disconnected they actually are.








  • Except he doesn’t really have unlimited money. Like most rich bastards he had assets - aka, hypothetical money (investments). They take out loans using that hypothetical money as collateral, and then have to pay that money back over time, which they can do by earning dividends (hypothetical money increases that they can access without penalties) or selling hypothetical money for real money (possibly with penalties).

    Musk borrowed an enormous amount of money, which saddled the loaners with hypothetical money that began to decrease in value, and were this unable to profit by selling it for actual money. They therefore have to trust that Musk will repay these loans or else sell them at a loss to some other dumb bastard.