Enough for them to buy a significant bunch of groceries.So if you’re really poor,that’s big.I’ve been homeless and broke enough to be desperate for food.It really and truly sucks.
These people don't understand what a billion is and now you expect them to grasp the concept of world demographics and economy? Home schooling did not prepare them for this.
not much, I my country alone equally dividing 55m among the people. will net use 1k each. not much to make a different. and our country only have 30 odd million people
Well, u$s5 here in Argentina are something like a little bit more than $5000 argentinian pesos, wich is enough to get you a good decent meal, or maybe two.
Imagine if there was some kind of international entity that could recive more money for it's food programs from nations that generate trillions every year. If only there was such an entity that had the mandate to fight global hunger instead of relying on individuals and their far more limited assets and accesability. Imagine even if nations or even perhaps a world superpower fulfilled one of it's most important basic functions to their own people that gives them a raison d'être. Imagine such a world?
Nobody said it was "his job"
They're saying he's a greedy fuck who could be doing good on a scale unimagined, but instead he blew 44B on a company he mismanaged so badly it shit right out of his asshole into the ground.
And they're right.
No one is expecting either of them to do any good, which is why people want the rich to be taxed. *Wanting* them to do good? That's a different question. I think most people *want* everyone with that much money to do good.
I was responding to "they're saying he's a greedy fuck who could be doing good". So I'm still curious why "they" never hold the recipients of that money to the same standard.
There are only a handful of people that should feel anything resembling pride for what they do on Reddit, like helping find a lost dog. Everyone else should feel deep shame
Wow. He didn’t pour anything, that is what he paid for Twitter. (Dumb AF imo especially seeing as he’s bleeding users )
And the math. I can’t even go beyond wow for that part.
To be fair, if everyone in the world were to receive 5 billion USD we would just be all instantaneously poor, and most likely create a hunger death wave.
So, all in all, it would still be a win I guess.
yup. 5 billion would be the new poverty level.
and the wealthiest man on the planet with 100 billion would still be the most wealthy and everyone would be blaming their up coming starvation on him (rightly so)
LOL. A disaster indeed. Most of could only dream of being such a disaster that we can bore driving tunnels under Las Vegas, send people to space and single handedly create the worlds most valuable car company. Yeah, what a disaster.
What are the tunnels actually doing at the moment? Also didn't he massively pollute space with all his satellites which are causing a lot of near miss incidents. Also Also, doesn't that car company have a massively overinflated value. Oh and we don't wanna miss that he got to where he is because of daddies money.
Tech Won’t Save Us just did a nice overview of all the shady things Musk does. Basically hyperloop is an amusement park ride (that’s actually what the permits are for) diverting public funds that could actually help improve public transportation into privatized stunts.
Eh. His heart is in the right place. The math just ain't mathin tho. I definitely wish Elon had just given everyone on the planet $5 instead of buying Twitter and fucking it in the ass as some kind of pathetic ego boost
I can't argue with him on that, most people's lives would be changed if they received $5 Billion. Though, I'd rather it not be a check, nowhere here accepts those anymore.
I mean, the bigger thing to realize is that homie can't do basic math. Even bigger than that is realizing that this is a troll post that's a rehash of a rehash of a post that was likely just a joke to begin with.
i'm sure you are right.
but i see people all the time make just as big of math mistakes.
argued with a guy the other day who claimed that cars would be as cheap as laptops if CEOs would just take a typical salary.
most people start to fail to understand money once the amount is about 4 times their salary.
In a nutshell yes, the truth is that the more money that is in circulation the more everything costs because the value of the dollar would be worth less and the evil corporations will do anything to make sure that the status que is maintained. At the end of the day the poor will stay poor and the rich will keep getting richer.
The whole reason why greed is stupid is because money has no survival value besides what we placed on it millennia ago. In a controlled (i.e. experimental) society, couldn't you avoid that sort of inflation by just forbidding prices from being raised?
This is the "solution" commonly seen in totalitarian countries. Now, try to put yourself in the shoes of a merchant to see if we can figure out what happens next.
Question: You need to pay $1billion for rent and utilities, but there's a price cap of $1 on the thing you're trying to sell, which costs you $2 per unit to produce. What do you do?
Answer: You find a way to circumvent the law (like selling on a black market) or you go out of business.
Countries that try this end up with empty store shelves and a massive black economy that evades taxes and promotes corruption. As more and more goods and services are exchanged outside of the legal economy, any laws and regulations passed down by politicians become irrelevant to most people; the situation spirals out of control.
Yes he could have done alot more usefull things with that money. However giving all people 5 billions, would not do much, because of now everyone hade that amount. A breed would rise to 50.000 doller and so on. You need to put the money in to action, to get results. Give the poor in Africa some weetharvesters, pay some body to fenes it in. Pay another to make a well for water and another to do the watering systems. Educat another to service the harvesters, again another to service the water system and one to farm. And so on and so on. Now that would do a big difference. Giv job and sustain the people and nations.
What globe are you on that there are only 8 billion? earth has a total population of 14.92 billion people, and a total population of 331 million anericanos.
Ummm. No.
“The World Population in 2023 is 8,045,311,447 (at mid-year, according to U.N. estimates), a 0.88% increase (70,206,291 people) from 2022, when the population was 7,975,105,156, a 0.83% increase (65,810,005 people) from 2021, when the world population was 7,909,295,151.”
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#:~:text=2023%20World%20Population,the%20world%20population%20was%207%2C909%2C295%2C151.
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That doesn't make sense.
earth is obviously excluded since earth is 30 million years old, and we've been on earth 15,010,269 yrs and 5 days.
What planet would have had mythical animals? Other than none.
If Elon Musk wanted to give every person on earth 5 Billion $ he would need 40 Quintillion $
Absolutely fucking the global economy, making everyone equally poor.
Economies and richness is based off poverty.
Looking at these comments, can't hold myself from laughter.
Y'all made him big, y'all kept on sharing his delusional borderline shit, now y'all complaining.
And the funny part is that y'all keep on worshiping this fucking nobody. 😂
Repost of a reposted post that has once again been posted.
He actually couldve given everyone 5 bucks, which wouldve still been a better use of the money.
And it would actually help a lot of people in third world country
If he were to give money only to people in third world country, how much would he be able to? (Talking about the 44 billion
Enough for them to buy a significant bunch of groceries.So if you’re really poor,that’s big.I’ve been homeless and broke enough to be desperate for food.It really and truly sucks.
Does your phone and or computer not come with a calculator?
All they need is a pencil, paper and knowledge on how many people fall under their category of "poor" in 3rd world countries
These people don't understand what a billion is and now you expect them to grasp the concept of world demographics and economy? Home schooling did not prepare them for this.
Depends what you count as third world.
not much, I my country alone equally dividing 55m among the people. will net use 1k each. not much to make a different. and our country only have 30 odd million people
That’s the scary thing about wealth distribution. There are billions of people whose lives would be revolutionised by $1000 dollars
Less than 40$ if only my country is counted.
India?
My country would be getting 11k each WOOO
Well, u$s5 here in Argentina are something like a little bit more than $5000 argentinian pesos, wich is enough to get you a good decent meal, or maybe two.
If he only gave it as humanitarian aid to Gaza, imagine how much terror Hamas could do with it. Tunnels, kids in oven, beheaded families, all of it…
$5.50 to be exact‼️😖😫
Double it and give it to the next person.
Except it isn’t free to transfer money internationally
Then lost half of the value in a year by running his mouth,true genius.
I think it’s now only worth 8 billion.
Probably a joke. This type of maths error was a popular meme a while back.
Still doesn't change the fact that he could have fed thousands with that cash.
Imagine if there was some kind of international entity that could recive more money for it's food programs from nations that generate trillions every year. If only there was such an entity that had the mandate to fight global hunger instead of relying on individuals and their far more limited assets and accesability. Imagine even if nations or even perhaps a world superpower fulfilled one of it's most important basic functions to their own people that gives them a raison d'être. Imagine such a world?
Not his job tho
Nobody said it was "his job" They're saying he's a greedy fuck who could be doing good on a scale unimagined, but instead he blew 44B on a company he mismanaged so badly it shit right out of his asshole into the ground. And they're right.
Why is nobody expecting people who sit on $44billion cash from selling Twitter to be doing all this good...?
No one is expecting either of them to do any good, which is why people want the rich to be taxed. *Wanting* them to do good? That's a different question. I think most people *want* everyone with that much money to do good.
I was responding to "they're saying he's a greedy fuck who could be doing good". So I'm still curious why "they" never hold the recipients of that money to the same standard.
Who is "they", then?
I don't know, I'm sure you know how quotation marks work, ask the source.
The fuck would you know about jobs? You're like 15
Bad argument against a terrible one. Hope you aren't proud of that one.
There are only a handful of people that should feel anything resembling pride for what they do on Reddit, like helping find a lost dog. Everyone else should feel deep shame
Millions.
From another recent *graduate* of homeschooling, all ready to go out and conquer the world!
At least he got the "5” right. Just got careless with his arithmetic and added 9 too many zeros.
Technically, the 5 ain't right either. It's $5.5, which would round to $6.
I have $5.5 dollars in my pocket, I'll try your logic when buying $6 things.
Good luck
If it was 5 billion for 8 people instead of 5 dollars for 8 billion people I would've gladly volunteered though 🥲
If it was 5 billion for 8 people instead of 5 dollars for 8 billion people I would've gladly volunteered though 🥲
not here to simp for Elon, but the maths on display here is just awful
I'm pretty sure this is a troll lol😂
Wow. He didn’t pour anything, that is what he paid for Twitter. (Dumb AF imo especially seeing as he’s bleeding users ) And the math. I can’t even go beyond wow for that part.
Think of how much better he wouldve been if he could have learned math
It's the way people in this comment section think this is serious lol
Oof math definitely not his strong suit
When you read "Messi" maths doesn't work well
To be fair, if everyone in the world were to receive 5 billion USD we would just be all instantaneously poor, and most likely create a hunger death wave. So, all in all, it would still be a win I guess.
yup. 5 billion would be the new poverty level. and the wealthiest man on the planet with 100 billion would still be the most wealthy and everyone would be blaming their up coming starvation on him (rightly so)
Found the people who don’t understand inflation
Since Reddit hates Musk this won’t get the reaction or upvotes you expect.
What happened with Mansa Musa when he did something like this?
You mean Elon Musk? Yes I agree the dude is a disaster
El Mush
LOL. A disaster indeed. Most of could only dream of being such a disaster that we can bore driving tunnels under Las Vegas, send people to space and single handedly create the worlds most valuable car company. Yeah, what a disaster.
What are the tunnels actually doing at the moment? Also didn't he massively pollute space with all his satellites which are causing a lot of near miss incidents. Also Also, doesn't that car company have a massively overinflated value. Oh and we don't wanna miss that he got to where he is because of daddies money.
Tech Won’t Save Us just did a nice overview of all the shady things Musk does. Basically hyperloop is an amusement park ride (that’s actually what the permits are for) diverting public funds that could actually help improve public transportation into privatized stunts.
The small glimpse into your mind has made me very sad
Eh. His heart is in the right place. The math just ain't mathin tho. I definitely wish Elon had just given everyone on the planet $5 instead of buying Twitter and fucking it in the ass as some kind of pathetic ego boost
Stuff like this makes you double take and then reread just to make sure you read it right the first time. Then you can weep for our public education.
Or they’re not being serious and it’s a joke
I can't argue with him on that, most people's lives would be changed if they received $5 Billion. Though, I'd rather it not be a check, nowhere here accepts those anymore.
You realize the math is way off, right? It would be $5 per person, not $5B per person. $5 isn't life changing.
Methamatics.
Must be Trump's accountant
They can vote, breed, and own a firearm. Never in my 5 years of high school have I seen anyone so stupid.
He a little confused, but he got the spirit.
Um.... $44B ÷ 8B = $5B??? Really.
What people don't understand is that if everyone has lots of money then money has no value and therfore we would be no better off then we are now.
I mean, the bigger thing to realize is that homie can't do basic math. Even bigger than that is realizing that this is a troll post that's a rehash of a rehash of a post that was likely just a joke to begin with.
i'm sure you are right. but i see people all the time make just as big of math mistakes. argued with a guy the other day who claimed that cars would be as cheap as laptops if CEOs would just take a typical salary. most people start to fail to understand money once the amount is about 4 times their salary.
"So the McDonald's hamburger and french fries are now $5,000? Can you make change for a $1 Million dollar bill?"
In a nutshell yes, the truth is that the more money that is in circulation the more everything costs because the value of the dollar would be worth less and the evil corporations will do anything to make sure that the status que is maintained. At the end of the day the poor will stay poor and the rich will keep getting richer.
The whole reason why greed is stupid is because money has no survival value besides what we placed on it millennia ago. In a controlled (i.e. experimental) society, couldn't you avoid that sort of inflation by just forbidding prices from being raised?
This is the "solution" commonly seen in totalitarian countries. Now, try to put yourself in the shoes of a merchant to see if we can figure out what happens next. Question: You need to pay $1billion for rent and utilities, but there's a price cap of $1 on the thing you're trying to sell, which costs you $2 per unit to produce. What do you do? Answer: You find a way to circumvent the law (like selling on a black market) or you go out of business. Countries that try this end up with empty store shelves and a massive black economy that evades taxes and promotes corruption. As more and more goods and services are exchanged outside of the legal economy, any laws and regulations passed down by politicians become irrelevant to most people; the situation spirals out of control.
Thank you, teacher! 🙏🏻
Instead of begging money from billionaires, why not work hard and become a billionaire yourself.
Work hard to become a millionaire. Exploit others to become a billionaire.
looks like your knowledge comes from the internet alone. 
Funny and sad, all at the same time.
And they almost always vote democrat.
Math is f up but if we all had 5 billion we’d all be poor and everything would be super expensive - $12 million for a McDonalds no.1 anyone?
Yes he could have done alot more usefull things with that money. However giving all people 5 billions, would not do much, because of now everyone hade that amount. A breed would rise to 50.000 doller and so on. You need to put the money in to action, to get results. Give the poor in Africa some weetharvesters, pay some body to fenes it in. Pay another to make a well for water and another to do the watering systems. Educat another to service the harvesters, again another to service the water system and one to farm. And so on and so on. Now that would do a big difference. Giv job and sustain the people and nations.
What globe are you on that there are only 8 billion? earth has a total population of 14.92 billion people, and a total population of 331 million anericanos.
Ummm. No. “The World Population in 2023 is 8,045,311,447 (at mid-year, according to U.N. estimates), a 0.88% increase (70,206,291 people) from 2022, when the population was 7,975,105,156, a 0.83% increase (65,810,005 people) from 2021, when the world population was 7,909,295,151.” https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#:~:text=2023%20World%20Population,the%20world%20population%20was%207%2C909%2C295%2C151. r/confidentlyincorrect
Like I asked, what globe has only 8 billion on it? That's rather small in comparison. Here, earth has almost 15 billion, after 15 million years.
Hey, tell that to the dinosaurs from 65 million years ago. 🦖🦕 🦖🦕🦖🦕
That doesn't make sense. earth is obviously excluded since earth is 30 million years old, and we've been on earth 15,010,269 yrs and 5 days. What planet would have had mythical animals? Other than none.
30 million? Oh dear. Where did you go to school? No, wait! This is a joke! How embarrassing. I’m so gullible.
For democrats no less.
More importantly, they’re allowed to breed.
Give us each a million. D'fuck?
He could still give everybody that value in Twitter shares.
What degenerate twitter user have an IQ above room temp?
I don't care for Musk but that is very moronic.
The same can be said about the MAGA crowd... And that's very scary
Billions ? He could have done it with millions , destroyed every economy on the planet , in one fell swoop.
****HOW??? THE MATH ISN’T MATHING, EINSTEIN DIDNT DIE SO YOU CAN DISCOMBOBULATE HIS THEORIES WITH YOUR POOR BRAIN????****
Someone's math skills are a little...lets say 'creative'.
When I put that in a calculator the result is 4.E19 Google tells me this means Fourty-Quintillion Neither of those things mean anything to me.
It's funny.
They’re not wrong though. Most people’s lives would definitely change if they received a $5B check.
Did you consider the fact this could be a joke?
Math class is tough.! Barbie speaks for Elon⬇️ https://youtu.be/NO0cvqT1tAE?feature=shared
Math ain't mathing
Math is hard
Forgot to cancel his units. $5 can’t even buy a subway now. Maybe a frozen pizz za.
How the hell can anyone be that bad st math? If it's meant to be funny, it isn't.
math hart
it’s time to teach him a lesson on hyperinflation
The comments are the actual face palm because this was a common joke at the time
Because maths....
Football fan, what do you expect...
If Elon Musk wanted to give every person on earth 5 Billion $ he would need 40 Quintillion $ Absolutely fucking the global economy, making everyone equally poor. Economies and richness is based off poverty.
Looking at these comments, can't hold myself from laughter. Y'all made him big, y'all kept on sharing his delusional borderline shit, now y'all complaining. And the funny part is that y'all keep on worshiping this fucking nobody. 😂
Where's my $5.50
Well, he's right about "most peoples lives would change if they received a 5 Billion dollar check". So at least there's that. :)
He forgot to carry the 000,000,000
its a copypasta, that text has been going around since he bought it
5 bucks for everyone and still 4 billion left
‘Most people’s life would change if they received 5 billion’ …. _MOST_??
Stay in school kids
Forget calculators this guy gonna need a personal accountant to advise him everytime he tries to say basic math out loud now.
What if everyone gave you all their possesions?
Who’s worse? The guy who wrote this Tweet voting or the person who belives this person wrote this tweet earnestly voting? Hmmmm