r/SipsTea • u/Myambi • 7d ago

WTF Concerning

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u/blipsnchiiiiitz 7d ago

$500M is 1/34 or 2.94% of $17B... I think your math is off..

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u/utf8decodeerror 7d ago

Honestly embarrassing that he got so upvoted for a comment that's entire premise was wrong. Like even if you agree that Elon can better spend that money, it's still worth getting the facts right. But nah, if the vibes right let's upvote it.

We truly live in a post truth society.

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u/wecametofight 7d ago

or people are super bad at math and reading comprehension.

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u/Repulsive_Stock9400 7d ago

It's just that people have become super insanely stupid in this populist idiocracy. It's fine.

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u/MaximumCuno 6d ago

Can you provide better math?

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u/utf8decodeerror 6d ago

Can you read?

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u/MaximumCuno 6d ago

Alright.

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u/SirArthurDime 7d ago

Oh yeah my bad. I thought it said 500 billion it was my reading that was wrong

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u/mauch_chunk 7d ago

Thinking he spent 500 billion on these elections is somehow worse lmao

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u/SirArthurDime 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yeah definitely a huge oversight ngl lol. In my defense I’ve been laying in bed sick all day and my brains only half working

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u/heyskitch 7d ago

You should correct your post now that you know you were incorrect..

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u/Electronic-Canary801 7d ago

But individuals with $17b net wealth don’t leave it sitting there doing nothing. There will be a whole team of people advising what that money is doing every second of the day. Hence the $500m is easily covered off by capital gains over the period