Veserr@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoSpaceX makes largest ever stock market debut, making Elon Musk world’s first trillionairewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down17
arrow-up145arrow-down1external-linkSpaceX makes largest ever stock market debut, making Elon Musk world’s first trillionairewww.theguardian.comVeserr@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareseathru@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·13 hours agoNot if the vast majority of that is already debt you can’t back up. But I’m really just complaining about semantics. Seems wrong to call someone a trillionaire that couldn’t actually put a trillion dollars on a poker table.
minus-square9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours ago couldn’t actually put a trillion dollars on a poker table. Thats not how net worth works… even for normal people, money on a poker table is an idiotic measure of net worth…
minus-squareseathru@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 minutes agoIs it? Basing it off imaginary stock market numbers sounds idiotic to me. And that is a hill I will die on.
Not if the vast majority of that is already debt you can’t back up. But I’m really just complaining about semantics. Seems wrong to call someone a trillionaire that couldn’t actually put a trillion dollars on a poker table.
Thats not how net worth works… even for normal people, money on a poker table is an idiotic measure of net worth…
Is it? Basing it off imaginary stock market numbers sounds idiotic to me. And that is a hill I will die on.