Dude, he also has a $70 million jet, which costs about as much as a yacht. Let's be honest here.
> If you want to pass judgment on what is and what is not frugality when it comes to billionaires, you need to expand your views a bit and stop thinking like a poor person.
Also :-)))
We're not talking poor here. We're talking "makes more money in 1 month than the richest lawyer you know" rich.
> Dude, he also has a $70 million jet, which costs about as much as a yacht. Let's be honest here.
First, I am not your dude.
Second, please, read the comment before you respond. I addressed it.
$70M is a drop in the ocean when you are in tens of billions of dollars especially when it is your work tool that lets you move fast between locations and save couple of hours on each trip.
> First, I am not your dude.
Maybe you are?
Sure, but he's not your buddy, guy.
Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account
by i_like_apis on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:21AM
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Chiming I here. “Dude …” is a dumb thing to say in a debate. Please take take that over to Reddit.
Also chiming in here, it's not a big deal at all to call someone "dude", because this isn't a formal debate, it's just a web forum.
Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account
by i_like_apis on Thursday December 15, 2022 @12:37PM
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… the steady decline of HN over the decades …
The person complaining about saying "dude" already lowered the tone of the drasticaly debate by saying, apparently without a hint of irony, "stop thinking like a poor person." So I agree there's a lot of low quality, revolting posts here but the use "dude" doesn't really scratch the surface.
> “Dude …” is a dumb thing to say in a debate.
Is it insulting?
Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account
by i_like_apis on Thursday December 15, 2022 @12:41PM
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As a part of a retort in an argument, it’s similar to rolling one’s eyes. It’s also not substantive.
No, but it is annoying and when in a debate it tries to distract and/or claim some kind of familiarity or higher ground.
And renting a yacht for $7k is actually super cheap. I know people who spend more on champagne in a club in a single evening, and no, they are not billionaires.
Even if this yacht was rented 365 days a year, which I do not believe, this would be $2.5M / year.
Even if this absolutely worst case (I don't believe for a second that Elon is partying on the yacht for large part of the year) you could still rent it for literally hundreds of years and still not match the cost of just buying your own large yacht. Forget about insurance, maintenance and staffing costs.
If you want to pass judgment on what is and what is not frugality when it comes to billionaires, you need to expand your views a bit and stop thinking like a poor person.