5th January 2023, 9:46 AM
At least in terms of money. He lost hundreds of billions because he didn't like having his trans joke taking down that one time. He did it all to himself of course.
And, even though he lost ALL of that, he's STILL one of the richest people in the world. This is damning. This is a fundamental failure of the capitalist system that such a thing is even possible. No one person could ever, EVER do enough to justify having THAT much money. No one's work anywhere is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, each billion, remember, being a thousand millions.
And, even though he lost ALL of that, he's STILL one of the richest people in the world. This is damning. This is a fundamental failure of the capitalist system that such a thing is even possible. No one person could ever, EVER do enough to justify having THAT much money. No one's work anywhere is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, each billion, remember, being a thousand millions.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)