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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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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I completely believe that he was making 1$ a day at some point, he's just neglected to talk about the 20 million he had in the bank from daddy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

or the other thousands of dollars he also ~~made~~ acquired that day

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Probably also ignoring his college dorm, tuition fees, and probably cafeteria fees.

There is no way you can "buy in bluk" when you have 1 dollar a day, as described in the article. You can barely get one orange per-day. Not to mention, there will be no way to reach a whole-sale store in the U.S., since you cannot afford any transportation, public or private, with 1 dollar.