All three of them aren’t worth much, truth be told.
Yep. If all 3 of them died in a freak submarine accident tomorrow, nothing would change in the world.
nothing would change in the world.
It depends on a lot of factors but an argument could be made that things would improve.
I was hoping that billionaires dying in submarine accidents was going to become a trend.
The raccoon I just saw rummaging through the trash bin has more value as a human being than all of them.
It’s weird how in English you say “he is worth x” if you just mean he has x money/assets
Is it not considered worth or net worth for you?
I don’t want to argue against the correctness of the sentence in English (I think you’re correct with that). I’m just uncomfortable by the conflation of two meanings. This makes:
“He spent his last penny” technically the same as “He is worth nothing”
So a rich person is “worthy”, which also means they are good, have achieved good things, and we are happy they exist. A poor person is “unworthy” and we can throw them away like garbage. That conflation is a problem to me.
Worth and worthy are very different words though.
What will it be once he gets his hands on the government? He is poised to line his pockets at an unbelievable scale.
Oligarchy!
Can we please stop calling someone “being worth” x amount of money? It’s disgusting on a fundamental level.
Shit, I did a double take seeing your name. It’s good to see you here on lemmy.
Yes!
I guess we can’t exactly say he has more money, but we could say he has more “wealth.”
But he’s about the most worthless piece of shit on the planet.
Okay lets brainstorm, they are all parasites on society, they are not more worthy than anyone else, but “king” has a sort of good vibe to it for many people so…
Something along Robber Baron? But again, baron is kind of cool.
Gangster? Too cool.
Oligarch is for russians right?
Child prince, too demeaning.
Hyper burglar, too complicated.
Thief sounds good IMO but they steal so much, and in history we’ve always been facinated with oeople being able to do that (kings, dragons, and actual thiefs).
Bureaucratic parasites? Because they steal the work by shuffling the papers. Also doesn’t sound “cool”.
Accountant or clerk seems to be what they actually are, cooking the book on the whole society.
Elon Musk: super clerc.
Zuccenberg: society accountant.
Bill Gates: fraudulent clerc.
…
In my opinion Elon is worth shit, but I’m no native speaker, hence I might be confused by the phrase.
Anyone know how this is being accounted for?
Which of his assets gained him like 200+billion in the last year?
I know twitter lost value after he financed it through the saudis, so he must have gained somewhere else, anyone want to save me a Google?
Politics.
Luigi needed more bullets.
There’s a little Luigi in all of us.
And his dad has still never loved/hugged/respected him.
worth at least that much more than them dead too
Buncha pussies like Bezos and Zuckerberg could never take out someone as rich and powerful as Elon.
Buncha pussies like Larry Ellison and Warren Buffet could never take out someone as rich and powerful as Bezos and Zuck.
And so on. Problem solved.
