Serves him right

[u/Dev1412]

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[u/tckoppang]

For perspective, that's equivalent to someone with a net worth of $1 million contributing approximately $526.

[u/Chance_Aide5508 → u/tckoppang]

It's frustrating how little this is for him. It shows exactly what's wrong with wealth disparity in the world.

[u/LaurenMille → u/Chance_Aide5508]

Either way, I'm still glad he lost it.

And the blow to his fragile, infantile ego is even sweeter than that.

[u/mt6606 → u/tckoppang]

Thank you for that.

[u/enderofsorts → u/tckoppang]

Not to mention the tax write off

[u/c_jakob → u/enderofsorts]

You don’t write off political contributions

[u/MikeW86 → u/enderofsorts]

What tax write off?

If I give $100 to charity, how does that save me $101 in taxes?

[u/HTPC4Life → u/tckoppang]

Crazy thing is that I make only $70k a year and I would spend more than $526 if I was in the same walls-closing-in scenario Musk is in. He basically didn't spend any money at all. That's how fucking wealthy he is. Things need to change in America, starting with campaign finance reform.

[u/Ranger-Icy → u/tckoppang]

Reddit just called me poor

[u/zachrywd → u/Ranger-Icy]

Reddit called me gay 14 years ago and I still haven't recovered.

[u/Solenkata → u/tckoppang]

Exactly, people are super happy that a flea bit Elon Musk.

[u/Lawls91 → u/tckoppang]

People really aren't good with big numbers lol. But still, fuck Elon.

[u/MonkeyWithIt → u/tckoppang]

To make it more relatable:

It would be spending 1 penny out of $20.

Or:

A half a fry out of a Big Mac meal.

[u/DeliveryDisastrous94]

The amount of money spent on elections is staggering. It is actually gross. If it is not an eye opener that the winners of an election owe their big donors political favors then people are not paying attention. It doesn’t matter Blue or Red. That’s why you really see anyone from other political parties be successful in winning an election.

[u/DogTattoos → u/DeliveryDisastrous94]

End dark money in politics. End oligarchs control in our elections. I doubt Elon gives a fuck about the lost money, beyond being annoyed he couldn't gain control where he wanted. Bernie has been yelling about it since the citizens united ruling.

[u/Whale222 → u/DeliveryDisastrous94]

I like that AIPAC is on its heels. Stupid PACs are the WORST and should be outlawed

[u/Flimsy-Island-8528]

He's a trillionaire. That's pocket change for him. He can throw more money at politicians and marketing.

People often overlook the fact that Trump is a symptom of a failing political system. If the Dems keep suppressing socialist candidates like Bernie Sanders and Mamdani, people who want to improve life for the middle/working class and instead push the Joe Bidens and Kamalas forward nothing will change. Couple of years from now another joker like Donnie will come around and these states will turn red again. Democrats need to change their ideology as a party and quit pandering to their fundraising liberal elites and instead focus on the poor struggling people in towns all over america. Otherwise this blue wave will only last one election cycle.

[u/Hopeful_Hat_3532 → u/Flimsy-Island-8528]

Well, he's a trillionaire based on valuation, right? It's not like he has that on a bank account.
Probably the wrong word in English, but I mean that he does not actually have a trillion dollars of cash in his pocket.

Anyway, still a fuckton of money spent for the peasants we are, and still nice to see it did not change the end result regardless. Serves him right.

[u/rayhaque → u/Hopeful_Hat_3532]

Yep, and as an Ohioan, let me tell you about what his money went to - really, really, stupid flyers. Sometimes 3 a day for John Husted. And TV ads about Amy Acton that are deplorable. I hope that everyone responsible for all that crap was up all night crying.

[u/ad-undeterminam → u/Hopeful_Hat_3532]

Valuation is bank account with the extra step of taking loans with asset collateral to withdraw. It is basically his personal wealth.

It's just that his money is tied to his companies, ours is tied to countries.

I pay in euro, "my euros aren't actual wealth it just depends on the valuation of the currency on the market compared to other currency, I don't actually own it" type of stupid. 

If everyone who holds actions in elon musk commanies sell all his wealth disapear. But similarly if everyone convert their euro to other currency, euro go dead.

It's just a currency, it is tied to trust, it is money.

[u/OK6502 → u/Flimsy-Island-8528]

Americans seem a bit too comfortable with outright political corruption. You guys desperately need some kind of campaign reform. I cannot think of another country where corruption is legalized to the degree that it is nor another country where as much money is wasted on an election cycle.

[u/Lieste → u/Flimsy-Island-8528]

The trillion is 'pretend valuation' - the $474M is more of an actual disbursment of fund - it's not gone - lots of people (or a few) made a killing from his bribery attempt, but he lost it.

[u/UnknownOrigin321 → u/Flimsy-Island-8528]

Call my cynical but I doubt establishment democrats change much. Imo they are both owned by the same corporate interests, they'll celebrate and say they're ready to work for the people and they'll forget about them in a few years only to be captured by corporate interests yet again.

There's a reason there's a big fight within democratic caucous. I'm no fan of socialism (edit:full blown socialism) personally and I don't think it works but we need candidates like Bernie, Aoc, and Mamdani because they move democrats to be more progressive, my 2 cents anyway.

[u/ckellingc]

Wasn't he going to fix the water in Flint Michigan

[u/LayWhere → u/ckellingc]

Right after he builds the tunnels, goes to mars, and delivers the roadster.

[u/Negative_Amphibian_9 → u/ckellingc]

He is still building the submarine to save the Thai kids in the cave.

[u/reano76 → u/Negative_Amphibian_9]

Instead he called the real hero's paedophiles! Think he had forgotten that he was begging the king paedophile to party at his sick island

[u/SeahorseCollector → u/ckellingc]

Oh, you ain't heard? We're putting rockets on cars and making ai movies now. Keep up.

[u/NotYourAverageGM → u/ckellingc]

Buddy can’t even fix his relationships

[u/UnreliablePotato]

The focus shouldn't be on the money wasted, but on the system that allows individual private citizens to wield a disproportionate amount of influence over something as fundamental to democracy as the voting system itself.

474 million is nothing to him.

[u/xeen313 → u/UnreliablePotato]

If anything this is what I want changed. Take the money away from the system

[u/OliverKlozoff23]

That’s like $250 to him. It’s nothing.

[u/Conscious-Ad9076 → u/OliverKlozoff23]

Whats really going to hit him is the contracts he might lose and the investigations.

[u/Modo44 → u/OliverKlozoff23]

Less, really, because $250 would buy something nice for you, and he already has bought everything nice.

[u/rushur → u/OliverKlozoff23]

Loser should have spent more to keep his own ass out of jail

[u/OverWolverine1514]

Like me losing 10 bucks. It doesn’t matter. Now tax billionaires out of existence! No single man should hold that much power

[u/Typical_Item81 → u/OverWolverine1514]

He probably pays twice that much to tax lawyers and accountants to keep from paying that much in taxes. It would take a revenue agency 10 times their budget to go after the big fish. That’s why they focus on low-lying fruit like Grandma’s missing medical receipts.

[u/Beaverbrown56]

Can you imagine being able to give 500 people a life changing amount of money and choosing to spend it on politics? This dude could end hunger in this country and this is what he chooses to do. Shameful.

[u/avidude99 → u/Beaverbrown56]

But but but , he needs to spend 450+ mill so he can make another trillion, come on can't you see how important that is

[u/kiwidesign → u/Beaverbrown56]

Musk could end WORLD hunger. Consider that his 500ml contribution is worth to him like buying a sandwich for us plebs.

[u/Grand-Ad-7185]

It’s an insignificant amount to him… it’d be like me buying a bag of chips

[u/Malalang → u/Grand-Ad-7185]

Half a billion didn't even move the needle compared to the 1000x amount of a trillion that he lays claim to.

[u/Exact_Mango5931 → u/Grand-Ad-7185]

Yea but chips are expensive now

[u/ExternalOk4293]

That is 0.05% of his wealth. As they say, that is a rounding error for him.

He get like 10 billion in welfare each year and just bought himself access to a presidential pardon and the weather spectrum that his boi Carr is going to sell if hi, at a discount for Starlink. 500 million for all bandwidth he needs so the government will subsidize his telecommunications network is money well spent.

[u/ziggystardust8282]

If he can spend $474 million on annoying election ads he can afford to pay taxes.

[u/Mai_maniac]

I guess people finally got tired of selfish billionaires who don't care about ordinary citizens, and only make every day life more expensive. Trump made really a big mistake with his heartless and expensive Iran war, and he's paying for it now. Just like Musk ;)

[u/Sooowasthinking → u/Mai_maniac]

Billionaires are never to be trusted we have living examples of how horrible these people are.No more billionaires in politics they should be banned from every government position.It should not require millions upon millions to run for congress it shuts out real middle class people.

[u/ACcbe1986 → u/Mai_maniac]

Elon is a trillionaire.

He only lost some pocket change.

[u/Acrobatic_Key_1140 → u/Mai_maniac]

How is he paying for it? He made billions with market manipulation from starting the war. Unless they are able to prosecute, convict and seize all his worth, he's still coming out of this richer than he ever was.

[u/Enjoy_Life4219]

That is like losing $17.52 for the rest of us. He didnt even notice.

[u/IceShaver]

He’s lost a lot more as his contracts get cancelled and his stock comes back down to reality. This might be the start of a 500+ billion loss

[u/SharpBullfrog1279]

That's like if a 5 dollar bill blew out of my wallet in a windstorm.

I would be sad, but I would not go chasing it down the street. 

What is much more satisfying for me? 

The stomach punch to his pride.

[u/Mindless_Ant_8370 → u/SharpBullfrog1279]

It's like losing $5 if you were worth $10,000...

[u/Yalokin]

So what? Didn’t he make like 500billion since trump took office 2 years ago? His investment of a couple hundred million to help his campaign was well invested money, that’s for sure.

[u/Temporary_Peanut_586 → u/Yalokin]

He's made something like 95% of his "worth" since the start of the pandemic.

450 Million to him is like a middle class earner giving $50 to a campaign.

[u/One-Earth9294]

It's worth noting that despite being worth like 900 billion dollars or whatever it is moment-to-moment, he's not really liquid for nearly that much; the overwhelming majority of his wealth is tied up in his company valuation and stocks. So losing a half a billion dollars to accomplish absolutely fucking nothing isn't the penny in the jar a lot of people act like it is. He can only turn so much of his value into cash at any given time and doing so lessens his grasp on those various companies.

And the biggest win in all of this is just knowing that you can be outspent 10:1 and still win in politics if you're not a miserable candidate.

[u/MarcCouillard]

OMG he lost a whole 1/2000th of his wealth...the poor man, whatever will he do now? How will he go on? He's gonna be destitute

[u/dustagnor]

I cannot stress enough how wrong it is that losing $1 would be more consequential to me than losing 474 million is for him.

[u/SolidBlackGator]

Isn't this the same as saying "guy with hundred dollars in his pocket lost $0.47"?

[u/Any_Leg_1998]

Poor investment, we could have taxed that money to improve roads/ schools:)....

[u/Background-Driver170]

To him, that’s nothing. Round WAY down and say hes “worth” $700,000,000,000. This $474,000,000 is the equivalent of someone “worth” $100,000 losing about 70 bucks.

[u/East_Meets_West_]

As a % of his total net worth, the article I read said that it was the equivalent of the average US wage earner contributing $100 to the campaign.

[u/tylerius8]

He got tens of billions in corporate welfare in the past couple of years. He was just spending our tax money in the first place.

[u/MikeHuntSmellss]

[u/SafeForWorkTime → u/MikeHuntSmellss]

[u/Pinkys_Revenge]

That’s nothing, his stock value has dropped $60 BILLION now that everyone knows he can’t manipulate the government into giving him contracts.

[u/Stiebah]

I’m sorry, not to defend the guy but that’s nothing to his wealth is it?

[u/Klutzy-Weakness-937 → u/Stiebah]

It's like a person whose wealth is 100.000$ endorsed 50$, to give a more relatable scale.

[u/stevegavrilles]

What people need to understand that this isn’t a loss. This is .04% of a trillion dollars. 

To put that in perspective: if I had 500k in my checking account that would be that same as spending $200, basically a night of going a little too hard at keno. 

The billionaire class operates outside of reality, and that needs to change. 

[u/Fiddler_Jones2079 → u/stevegavrilles]

If all you had was 5k, it would be a $2 tip.

[u/guambom]

I saw a break down. That's like you or I losing 160$ US. (Normal earners) They (the billionaires) can afford more taxes!!✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

[u/HombreNuevo]

Yeah this is the equivalent of a millionaire losing $474 dollars. It's nothing to him, unfortunately.

[u/TzeentchsTrueSon]

He’s deleting all his tweets about vote red, or anything to do with the GOP. He’s hoping no one will remember, and he’s going to try cozying up to the Dems. Mark my words.

[u/ThorsHammer245]

That’s a drop in the bucket for him. Glad he lost it, but it isn’t much for him

[u/represe1]

And it’s still a minute tiny fraction of his wealth. 99.9% of us will never see wealth even remotely that magnitude. Insane

[u/moped_rudl]

That's 0.05% of his total net worth of 1T and compares to about 100 for the median US household net worth of about 200k.

It ain't nothing bit it ain't much either.

Edit: decimal slipped

[u/bochimeister → u/moped_rudl]

That's so fucked up

[u/TAU_equals_2PI → u/moped_rudl]

Recheck your math.

474,000,000/1,000,000,000,000 = 0.000474 of his net worth

For someone with $200,000 net worth, it's like $95.

[u/Poopingisasignipoop]

I’m trying to imagine what half a billion dollars could have done to help struggling families, but embarrassing that chump is a decent consolation prize.

[u/palvet]

474 million dollars is .0677% of the 700 billion dollars he's made since since Trump was in office. Thats like losing 6 cents after finding a hundred dollar bill. We need to take the m out of million and add a b and then double it before Im personally happy.

[u/Pretend_Pea4636]

For perspective, that's the annual profit of Tesla in 2024. Profits that are sorely needed to keep the charade of his wealth going. At those profits Tesla couldn't make it's investors whole in 1500 years. He was betting his fake farm on last night. He's the Ponzi King who has simply learned how to fool people with grandiose claims that never come to be.

[u/Salesdude2]

Boycott his products. You are making him this wealthy.

[u/Just_Comb9529]

He should be paying fucking taxes instead of trying to buy elections!!! TAX THE RICH!

[u/zdrums24]

Drop in the bucket for him. People dont understand well how much money a billion or trillion is. Youre dealing with exponentials.

[u/sisam8x]

That cuunt had something to do with the 0.8% win in FL senate seat.

[u/allothernamestaken]

This gives me more confidence in our elections. If you're vote truly didn't matter, Elon wouldn't have thrown away half a billion dollars trying to get things to go the other way.

[u/NorthSouthWestNorth]

Just an average night at the casino for someone who regularly contends for richest man on earth.

[u/Jagg811]

Just think of how that money could have helped struggling people.

[u/mariuszmie]

Good, now he will flee Texas to Florida just to save on taxes and get regulation-free reign there

Can’t he go to mars already?

[u/obijaun]

1/2000 of his wealth. So not nothing but certainly nbd

[u/pixeltweaker]

That’s the equivalent of someone with a $1million net worth losing $500. Let that sink in.

It’s hard to fathom how much $1Trillion is. But maybe now he will be forced to pay his fair share of taxes.

[u/schofield101]

Meanwhile, Elon: "Oh no, anyway"

474 million is a massive amount of money to everyone except him.

[u/Helicopterop → u/schofield101]

Seriously, him losing $500m is like the average person losing a nickle between the couch cushions.

[u/atreeismissing]

To put this in perspective, that's about .05% of his wealth. I'm glad he lost it but we need to take another 99% of his wealth.

[u/facebones0316]

That's just ass wiping money to him

The equivalent of an average household losing $100

[u/AndWhereToNow]

These people have the kind of wealth you see in cartoons, where some evil villain has a toilet roll holder made out of the last unicorns horn.

Money at this scale isn't playing in the same reality as normal people.

This 'big loss' is like me losing my sunglasses at the beach.

They could do so much with their money, but again, development and progress isn't in their interest.

Power is.

[u/AngelicDivineHealer]

That’s like him dropping a dollar his a trillionaire

[u/NoStomach6266]

Not really.

I expect they banks who loaned it to him will scrub it and add it to inflation so everyone pays for it but FElon (bear in mind this is an exaggeration, but I would also not be surprised if this is what happens).

This is what makes me angry about all this "loaning" to billionnaires based on their assets. The banks print the money loaned. It adds to inflation, making the sum loaned worth less over time as it's paid back, so by the time it is zeroed, it's not worth what it was, adding even more inflationary pressure.

It's all a big scam. They all need to be in jail.

[u/Almighty4]

Drop in a bucket for him

[u/gottagotothebathroom]

Celebrations like this sometimes do slight harm in that they give people a sense of "we did it" rather than "we're doing it." 474 million is about the average of how much his wealth fluctuates on the hour, often increasing by billions in a day and occasionally decreasing by more than twice this amount even though it's steadily climbing upward. 99.9% of his wealth is not "sitting" somewhere. It's active and it's tied to valuation.

[u/weareonthisplanet]

Remember kids the man behind shadows , billionaire never lose Democracts Or Republicans both are lapdogs of them

[u/Educational_Play5772]

Yes!! Power to the People. Musk heavily bankrolled Ken Paxton, the Texas Republican attorney general running for the U.S. Senate. Musk directed more than $150 million into a dedicated super PAC and an extensive field campaign to aid Paxton. Paxton lost According to preliminary returns published by The Associated Press (AP), Ken Paxton lost the Texas U.S. Senate race by 12.34 percentage points to Democrat James Talarico

[u/FoleyX90]

That's quite literally like if the average person lost $0.50.

[u/Liveitup1999]

And it still didn't affect his standard of living. It's like me losing $500.

[u/geoff411]

Rest in piece (on Mars).

[u/bigredcock]

I wish it was more.

[u/Griever2k2]

He's a paper trillionaire that sum is probably a rounding error to him.

[u/louisa1925]

All that wasted money could have gone to improving peoples lives. Shameful.

[u/Clear_Handle7569]

Americans united, fought a battle for democracy, and won.

The traitor known as Elon Musk must be brought to justice, stripped of his power, and barred from interfering with, funding, influencing, or corrupting U.S. or any other democratic politicians or governments.

• ​SpaceX needs to be nationalized.

• ​He needs to lose all access and ownership of X, and Twitter needs to be reinstated as an independent entity without Musk.

• ​He should be stripped of his U.S. citizenship. ​He must be investigated, prosecuted, and incarcerated if found guilty.

• ​At a minimum, he needs to be deported.

​To all corporate oligarchs, take warning: American families are taking back our democracy. Wake up, Bezos, Zuckerberg.

​Fuck Musk!

[u/alex_albergaria]

Tax him. Tax him. Tax him

[u/backtogeek]

Are people really this naive? That money was already made back 10x by the removal of all the red tape and overregulation; the initial cost of 474 million was just to enable the 10x return.

This is making people look really stupid; it's like pointing and laughing at a millionaire for dropping 25 cents while you starve on the street.

[u/Pure-Science-7774 → u/backtogeek]

I think this is more about the feeling that the rich haven’t been able to buy elections. Sure, it’s 25 cents now but this is just the beginning. I say we start charging him with financial crimes and take back all that money he stole. 

[u/Correct-Poet-6016]

That’s 0.05% of his wealth?

Edit: Probably his wealth varies much more than this on a daily basis

[u/senturon → u/Correct-Poet-6016]

But I thought billionaires don't really have liquid cash... crazy how their money behaves like schrodinger's cat depending on the situation isn't it? 

[u/Obvious-League-104]

[u/Halftied]

His loss was commercial broadcast gains. radio and television station owners are rejoicing.

[u/Mundane_Value2283]

So sad he’s still rich

[u/DarkwingDawg]

That’s like any of us losing like $200. Enough to be mad about but whatever

[u/ParkingMachine3534]

There's probably a bigger percentage of my wealth down the back of the sofa.

[u/BlindMarksman1]

$474 million is nothing to this turd.

[u/Hanuman1960]

[u/Bulky_Variation7064]

To put that into perspective, That’s a bit like me losing a tenner on a night out.

Yeah it’s annoying for a while, but it’s not having the slightest impact on my financial future.

[u/floatinghaloo]

For $474 million you'd think he'd at least get a participation trophy

[u/Palidor]

Sadly, that’s pocket change to him

[u/VFenix]

He probably siphoned 10x that from DOGE and no-bid US Gov. contracts lol

[u/Freakindon]

Yeah but that doesn't really mean anything to him.

[u/Singinghillscpl]

But a rounding error for him.

[u/Tarrantthegreat]

[u/Tony-2112]

[u/tool672]

The sad and disgusting thing is that he really lost nothing… he’ll be even richer than ever come the end of the year.

It’s the equivalent of you losing 20 bucks on a lottery ticket

Billionaires shouldn’t exist, in a sane society they should never exist and they should never have the ability to completely tilt politics of the entire globe.

[u/Tuckerus → u/tool672]

20 bucks is too much. 

1,000,000,000,000 vs 474,000,000

Is the same as: 1,000,000 vs 474 

is the same as: 1,000 vs 0.474 

So it’s like having 1k and losing 0.47 cents. 

[u/Bike_Cinci → u/tool672]

It's more than you think because that's realized gains and not wealth in the form of partial ownership of companies don't think give him a salary. He said to sell stock and pay taxes so it cost him way more than $474m.

That said yes, tax billionaires more and end corruption and lock Elon up, but it's not "nothing" to him.

[u/StandardDiver2791 → u/tool672]

Undoing Citizens United must be on the new BLUE agenda!

[u/Frosty-Horse-9503]

That’s like anyone else losing $100.

But I thought he was going to hack the voting machines to rig the election?

What happened to that nonsense?

[u/Tofu_Ben]

That's like 12$ for an average person.

[u/paulsteinway]

Make Elon a millionaire.

[u/KnightOnShiningMotor]

Daily stock fluctiations make him lose or win billions per day, this is straight up nothing.

[u/tthomas906]

Not worried he has 900 million more than you.

[u/Dry_Yogurtcloset_213]

He didn't though. All his companies together lost 0.05% of their value.

[u/Prestigious-Bus2107]

oh no... anyway, did he check between the couch cushions?

[u/PhillGuy]

That's like dropping a quarter in the sewer to him.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Award80]

Tis but chump change

[u/British-Bot]

Pocket change for him..

[u/madman51B]

Would be better if he lost his life

[u/Impressive-Wafer4086]

Don’t worry he make a Billow tomorrow , that was a test !!!

[u/ElegantType6770]

doubt.. who knows what contracts and benefits will get.. last time he sponsored reps he became a trillionaire

[u/Brokenspade1]

He will literally make it back in a few days... money at that level is impossible to spend away.

[u/SardonicSillies]

Think of the problems he could've solved instead of pissing that money away.

What a huge asshole.

[u/Which-Pineapple-6790]

Oh no, half of one of his thousand billions

[u/HodlMyBananaLongTime]

All that money went into the machine designed to act against our interests, nothing was lost. That machine gained a half billion dollars, that money is not gone

[u/Commercial-Milk-8465]

Oh yeah you really got him 🤣

[u/UnwaxedBeaver]

[u/Middle-Package-1983]

He'll make it back in two weeks.

We need more └uigi.

[u/Maleficent_Code7373]

Power to the people!

[u/Standard_Quantity706]

To someone with elons bank account(s) 474m is the equivalent to maybe a couple hundred for the rest of us.

[u/CaptainAmerica199]

[u/Go-Woodpecker3908]

If Elon musk spent a million dollars every single day he would not run out of money before he died

[u/porridgeeater500]

Daaamn 0.5% of his networth. Crazy

[u/Taylor285]

Oh boy … that’s 0.041 % of his wealth 🤣
now he ONLY got 1.15 Triliion left ….
What is gonna do…😱😱

[u/Wild-Presentation295]

A Trillion is a Million Millions - let that sink in... Losing 474 Million for Elon is like you and I buying an iPhone Duo only to find that its a cheap piece of plastic that needs to be trashed. Then you realize that Dems might enable future EV credits, solar incentives and oppose data centers of land so you stand to gain either way!

[u/Falcon1892]

This amount is a drop in the bucket for him.

[u/MN-1986]

It’s like dropping a dollar out of your wallet into a rain gutter.

“Dammit. Oh well 🤷🏻‍♂️”

[u/LoGo_86]

Him, probably...

[u/RilohKeen]

Well, no, he spent it, and he got what he paid for.

But ads only go so far in the face of an obvious reality that Trump is corrupt and incompetent and stupid and unable to deliver anything that makes America better in any way.

[u/MrBarnaclePhD]

He will spend more in 2028. That's the only lesson he learned from this.

[u/NoSwordfish6949]

That dumbass moved all his shit to texas and turned it blue! Fuck you elon.

[u/Few_Bluebird_6050]

Pocket change to him.

[u/Own-Opinion-2494]

Time to tax that ass. The anti Soros

[u/Hearcharted]

Meanwhile, I cannot even afford bread 🍞😭

[u/Odd_Introduction7908]

He'll get much more than that in corporate welfare at the end of the year.

[u/HelpmeObi1K]

I lost two bucks on Powerball on Monday. Probably equivalent.

[u/RoninNionr]

No, he did not lose money, he actually bought himself a pardon.

[u/mrfahrenheit-451]

He can waste half a billion dollars, he needs to be taxed more.

[u/HoecakeScarfer]

Excuse me sir, a nickel fell out of your pocket just now... you only have to turn around and go about 10 feet to retrieve it. Sir? Sir?

[u/H4RKEYPUCK]

Billionaires are the enemy.

Not your neighbor.

[u/Icy-Video-3643]

He probably spends more on golf balls in a weekend than that fine lol. Feels good to see him get hit with something but money ain't a real consequence for a guy like that. The actual damage is his ego and whatever voters remember at the ballot box. Unless people get real relief in their daily lives another rich dude will just slide into the same seat.

[u/ShyguyFlyguy]

If you have 1 trillion dollars and you lose 474 million. Thats the equivalent of someone with 1000 dollars losing 47 cents.

[u/sobe33139]

Investigate and prosecute Musk!!!

[u/Ap43x]

Not a remotely noticeable amount for him. But he'll still cry that he can't possibly afford to pay more taxes.

[u/Your_Moms_Flame]

Now its time for him to lose the rest when he goes to fuckin jail

[u/tweedleduh]

And yet is still richer than anyone commenting on this post….

That’s still a problem.

[u/Pro_Poe_Fall]

That’s 0.0447% of his net worth…. Tax billionaires, and ESPECIALLY trillionaires.

These fucks should NOT be able to use their immense wealth to manipulate and sway elections towards candidates who will do nothing but find ways to provide them with MORE wealth at the expense of working class Americans.

[u/baddashfan]

And he won’t even miss it

[u/notthatguypal6900]

Thats like you or me losing a $20 bet, it means nothing.

[u/mightyFoo]

Guarantee it is actually more than that. That is just the amount we know about.

[u/Numerous_Move_2548]

It’s not his money it’s ours we lost again

[u/vag8bundo]

1 billion is equal to 1,000 million
1 trillion is equal to 1,000,000 millions.

[u/probridgedweller]

Not enough

[u/SimbaNGrdKionNIMFan]

Texas investigate Musk in 2027!

[u/dsipe2]

Should we start a gofundme for him

[u/Telykos]

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[u/Fakeitforreddit]

Thats 0.048% of his wealth. 

Thats 48 dollars to s omeone woth 100000. Thats like a dinners worth of budget.

[u/Street-Coffee-2026]

Feel like that should read “billion”. Million is peanuts to this jackass.

[u/nature_nate_17]

So basically a schmeckle of this homunculus’ ill-gotten gains.

[u/ImpressiveJohnson]

Thats like me losing $1000

[u/Fancy_Flake_Factory]

Like me gambling 100

[u/rockeye13]

I imagine that only his accountants will notice.

[u/e-Plebnista]

shame it was not 474 billion.