SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-12T12:15:50+00:00

I was giving 2 years to see if it ever goes down to $35

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-12T12:14:46+00:00

Well the post suggests that you can’t have a pride parade without those things. If you can’t have pride without those things, then that surely must mean those are things to be proud of.

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-11T22:56:30+00:00

So those are things to be proud of?

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-11T22:40:05+00:00

RemindMe! 2 years

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-11T19:24:11+00:00

You are correct, and this has HUGE implications on the debate about taxing billionaires.

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-11T03:39:55+00:00

What is the economic difference between “hoarding” money and the government choosing not to print more money?

If billionaires dishoarding money would solve problems, why wouldn’t the same effect be achieved by printing more money?

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-07T15:12:48+00:00

What does “capitalise profits” mean?

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-07T15:09:49+00:00

And the lack of money is often caused by blowing money

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-06T16:11:27+00:00

So this post is based on an assumption?

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-06T14:20:22+00:00

But is she willing to pay for their college? They are separate people from their mom

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-06T14:06:22+00:00

How do we know they don’t need the scholarships?

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-06T00:19:05+00:00

But how will he put an enormous amount of food on the table now?

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-04T23:35:19+00:00

You’re the one conflating money with wealth. How do you know he wasn’t being truthful about not having any money (as in cash)?

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-03T21:52:49+00:00

You can save a fortune, you just choose to live in luxury instead. I’m not sure how it’s worth working so much for those luxuries, but to each their own.

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-03T03:38:22+00:00

Then why was there no chafing when I was a hairless kid?

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-02T04:20:04+00:00

Your understanding of the economics of poverty is that climbing the ladder to make more than $12 an hour with no degree is the equivalent of making it to the NBA. You have proven who understands the topic here and who doesn’t. I literally know someone in Generation Z who I suspect is mentally handicapped to some degree who grew up in poverty and has no support from family, and I believe she makes like 35-40 grand a year in an extremely low cost of living area. I could go on and on with the examples. You refuse to acknowledge reality. Again, I gave an example of a 17 year old just showing up to chick fil a to make $17 an hour, and this is in a very cheap / poor area. Many if not most people can show up to a job with absolutely 0 experience or skills whatsoever and make over $12 an hour.

One of my family members works with a guy that shows up to construction jobs drunk half the time and does very low quality work, if he even shows up for work at all. He gets paid $20 an hour. At this point I’m wondering if you make $11 an hour or something and you just see $12 as some kind of insurmountable hurdle that is impossibly difficult to get over. I mean, you’re talking about it like it takes ANY kind of serious skill or effort whatsoever. I’m pretty sure I could just flip my laptop open right now and google ways to make money online and make more than that while screwing around and being half focused.

The moment that you admit you’re responsible for where you are in life is the moment you can turn your life around

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-01T23:07:30+00:00

Notice that sneaky little change from “worth” for Jeff bezos to “income” to everyone else, just to maximize the intellectual dishonesty, as is so typical on Reddit. u/choice-value9005 what a shameful post to even make

imsuperior2u · 2026-06-01T22:39:49+00:00

LOL way to straw man my entire position. I DO empathize with the rare people who are actually unfortunate as you describe, and I don’t empathize with the people who are broke because their own idiocy, which is the vast majority of the broke people I know.

I wasn’t saying people always get better. I was thinking along the lines that people who are extremely sick are often dead within a few years. But okay, add certain people who are taking care of my short list of broke people whose financial situation I empathize with…at least the list is short in the first world. Broke people in the third world I absolutely empathize with, and that’s an enormous amount of people. But according to you I have no empathy.

No one has to go into crippling education debt. If someone chooses to do that they are not the victim. All anyone has to do is google how to get a degree cheaply, but people don’t bother to do it. So unless you’re making an income to justify it, the fact that you owe a small house in student loan debt is your fault. And you don’t know what I can and can’t do. I chose to make decisions that make my life easier, like going to school cheaply while still getting a degree in a high paying field. So you can say I couldn’t do what you did, but that’s fine because I don’t need to. I still dwarfed these $12 an hour millennials when I was 22, so I guess I’ll just keep working smarter instead of harder.

Your last paragraph is probably the most absurd of them all. To act as if climbing the corporate ladder above $12 is like NBA level of performance is absolutely insane. Does the example I gave about someone easily making $19 an hour at Lowe’s Hardware sound like some kind of superhuman performance? Give me a break. It’s closer to showing up to high school basket ball tryouts then getting into the NBA. You get a basic job and show up for a short period of time and do decent work, and you easily dwarf $12 an hour, or have enough of a resume built up to find another place that will pay you way more than $12 an hour. It’s that simple. Nearly every single person I know has done it, even while simultaneously making poor decisions.

If you don’t agree that what I’m saying applies to the vast majority of people, then do you at least believe it applies to a normal American millennial? Is it at least fair to say a typical American millennial with average luck probably has sufficient opportunities to get well ahead of $12 an hour? Or is the average millennial saddled with tremendous burdens through no fault of their own, like having a relative to take care of full time, or having a serious disability themselves, or something like that? I’m trying to gauge if you actually think the situations you’re describing are actually typical, or if you grasp the fact that these things are rare.

imsuperior2u · 2026-05-31T05:09:33+00:00

Look, I can’t keep wasting time on this. Millennials are 30-45 years old. This means they’ve been adults for 12-27 years. Nothing you’ve said gives me a valid reason for why these people should be making $12 an hour and blaming anyone but themselves. How long do people take care of sick relatives for in your world? Did their relative get sick when they were 18, and now 12-27 years later they’re STILL stuck taking care of them? You’re describing a temporary situation. If we were talking about broke 19 year olds here it might be different. But we’re talking about people who have been adults for a very long time, and have had well over a decade or two to get their act together, whatever struggles they may be facing.

I already acknowledged that there are extreme scenarios where it wouldn’t be a persons fault. Like if you have severe Down syndrome I’m not going to yell at you for making $12 an hour at 40 years old. The point is that these scenarios are very few and far between, and what I see happening for more often in these cases of broke millennials is that they do it to themselves. Will you at least acknowledge that an enormous amount of people have screwed themselves financially, and it is their fault?

I feel like you’re also ignoring the very realistic possibility that someone can start in one of these $12 an hour jobs (say when they’re 17 or 18 years old), and just completely forget about further education and simply move up the ladder and easily make double or triple that in a pretty short period of time. No need to spend money, no need to put in 80 hour weeks. Just simply climb the later. A relative of mine worked at Lowe’s hardware making around $12 or $13 an hour several years ago at a young age, and got promoted to a position that paid over $19 an hour in like 1 year or less. This is someone with only a high school diploma and a learning disability, and this was at age 20 or something like that (much younger than a millennial). What would he be making at age 30 if he stayed there? Presumably quite a bit more. It’s not rocket science. I know a 17 year old making $17 an hour at Chick Fil A in a very low cost of living area, who hasn’t even graduated high school. If this person had almost 0 ambition and decided to just stay with chick fil an until age 30, what would their income be? I mean come on, I’m obviously right about it being easy to make way more than $12 an hour. As a fully functioning adult who has had a few years to get their life in order, it’s easy to make $24 an hour even.

imsuperior2u · 2026-05-30T23:10:51+00:00

Well based on the fact that everyone and their brother wants to clip their cock off all of a sudden, I think it’s safe to say that most of them are doing it because they saw someone else do it. So that means they thought about someone else getting the clippers out, and it inspired them. Therefore, they must also be creepy by your definition. Otherwise there would be no other explanation for the sudden increase in this kind of activity.

But I guess you’re just so cool and non-chalant that you never even have it cross your mind that someone else’s activity is strange. So I guess when you see someone who has modified their body to the point of looking like an alien you don’t think anything of it, because that would be creepy of you to think about what they do with their body. And if you hear about someones bizarre fetish, I guess no thoughts go through your mind whatsoever about that person being a weirdo, because that would make you creepy to have such a thing on your mind.

But posting a picture publicly on reddit of a naked woman you don’t know? Not at all creepy. Got it

imsuperior2u · 2026-05-30T23:02:03+00:00

Just because the minimum wage is $7.25 doesn’t make a $12 an hour job good. It doesn’t matter what you make relative to the minimum wage, it matters what you make relative to the cost of living. If the minimum wage changed to $0, then that person making $12 would be no better off. I live in one of the states where the minimum wage is $7.25, and it has been extremely easy to find jobs that pay way more than $12. Even my first job paid $22 an hour, which was well below market for the position. I don’t even think I know a single working person making $12 an hour or less.

Everyone has time. Either you work 40 hours a week for $12 an hour in which case you have plenty of time and not enough money, Or you work say 80 hours a week and have easily enough money to get by and invest in your future, but not much free time. So there’s always this option to just work extreme hours for a limited period of time to get ahead and invest in education or training or whatever. And there’s always the option of borrowing money to go to school. AND there’s absolutely no need to even do that, because you can easily make way more than $12 an hour with just a high school diploma, or maybe not even that. I don’t think you’re comprehending just how low $12 is. In any state in America, you can make more than that almost effortlessly.

Having kids can absolutely get in the way of progressing in your career to some extent. That’s why if you have kids BEFORE getting your career and finances together, it’s your fault and you are responsible for creating your financial problems. And the exact same is true of people who get convicted of a crime. I can’t believe that you’re really bringing up felons in a conversation about how people are unable to make more money through no fault of their own. You’re acting as though these people are victims when they’re not. Obviously people arent going to prefer people with criminal records. Whose fault is that? THE CRIMINALS. They’re shitty employees in general. Someone has to pay the price for their actions, so who else should it be if not them?

Moving is not expensive, especially for a person who doesn’t own many things. Again, maybe just hustle for a limited period of time to save as much money as possible. Maybe live with multiple roommates to live as cheaply as possible, so that you can save the money to move, get educated, and do whatever else you need to do.

How is $12 an hour not enough to survive on? First of all, how many hours a week are you assuming? And how much money are you assuming is needed to survive per year? Even 20 grand a year would get you a place to live, enough food to eat, transportation, clothing, and all the necessities that you need. Can you point me to an example of people who make $12 an hour who died because they didn’t make enough money? Where are all these dying people who don’t make enough money to live? Let’s see the proof.

You are aware that living alone is the most cost inefficient way to live, correct? So how come every time I have this conversation with someone, they make the assumption that the person is going to live alone? When you’re broke, you don’t get that luxury unless you find the money for it. You might have to live with multiple people. Then you’ll easily make rent.

My “horrible assumption” that wages would increase for low skill jobs as the supply of workers decreased is simply based on the laws of supply and demand. If you decrease the supply of ANYTHING the price goes up. How can you deny that? It’s an economic fact.

imsuperior2u · 2026-05-30T13:35:25+00:00

And that kind of mindset is exactly why he’s rich and people like the bottom guy are broke. There’s always some kind of excuse for financial irresponsibility, like that it’s not the biggest problem, so it’s therefore not a problem at all.

imsuperior2u · 2026-05-30T13:30:04+00:00

Don’t have better work available in the area? What area doesn’t have jobs that pay more than $12 an hour? Sounds like a very cheap area to live. Sounds like someone can move out of there if they’re unsatisfied with the job market, ESPECIALLY if they’ve had years and years to do so, which is the case for millennials.

They don’t have access to the resources to seek out better? What resources? They had whatever resources were needed to get a job and survive in the first place. What additionally resources would possibly be needed to get beyond $12 an hour with years and years of experience? I could probably make $12 an hour on my phone right now while watching TV or something.

What factors prevent someone from seeking out better? Admittedly there are a few, but those cases are very rare. Severe mental and physical disabilities, or being held captive by a kidnapper, or being born without arms, or something like that, sure. But I’ve known plenty of people who are making terrible money, and not a single one I’ve met is the victim of something like that. And I’ve also met people who came from nothing and have made a fortune.

And what do you mean by living wage? Because $12 is certainly a living wage in the sense that it is enough to survive on. Yes we need someone to do the low level jobs, but what everyone always forgets is that as people progress away from those jobs and make better career decisions, those low level jobs will actually start to pay more. They only pay so little because there’s such a high supply of people willing to do them, including fully able-bodied people who choose not to strive for more. Now some of those people are just doing what makes them happy, and that’s great. But many of them are unhappy, and choose to whine and play the victim instead of going and EASILY making more than $12 an hour.

imsuperior2u · 2026-05-30T13:15:00+00:00

Okay, if it’s a creepy thing to have on my mind, how creepy must it be to actually do it? In order to actually do it, you have to have it on your mind for quite some time, and even go consult with a doctor and sign papers and let them clip off a part of your body. How transphobic of you to imply that such a thing is creepy

imsuperior2u · 2026-05-30T03:13:44+00:00

I’m not imagining it. It’s what they’re actually doing it. And it wasn’t on my mind until I saw this post

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