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Elon Musk Says He Survived On $1 Per Day Before Becoming The Richest Man In the World – 'In America It's Pretty Easy To Keep Yourself Alive' (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Who is his audience when he tells lies like this? Like, who is agreeing with him? Even beyond how bonkers it is to say out loud, it also doesn’t benefit him to further alienate himself from the world, does it?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Crazy right wingers who go "Obviously we need to cut welfare so this genius doesn't have to pay taxes! Then one day I will be just as rich as him and be glad I didn't make people as rich as him and future-me pay taxes!"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I can only imagine it's rich people who use this argument to try to justify hoarding wealth. After all, minimum wage is $7/hour, so these lazy bums only have to work one hour a week to live and they're still complaining? They can easily save money every week. It's their problem, not the person with billions of dollars.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This comment is ironic considering that this article is exaggerating what Musk said.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    the entire article is a litany of musk’s lies. even if the $1 a day part is a stretch (because it’s in reference to food), the words straight from the horses mouth are blatantly untrue.

    where is the irony? do you believe everything he says in the article?

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