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A Boring Dystopia
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Anyone know how this is being accounted for?
Which of his assets gained him like 200+billion in the last year?
I know twitter lost value after he financed it through the saudis, so he must have gained somewhere else, anyone want to save me a Google?
Politics.
this is stock value, and he gained the ~200B since the 6th of November.
So if I own a single dollar and tell everyone it's a trillion worth ... does that make me rich or am I a fool?
a fool, until someone believes you.
A fool unless you can convince an entire market that it’s a trillion dollars worth.
Look up unlimited money limited. It was a real company
Max Fosh is an absolute madman. Casually got the richest man in the world for like 2 days.
No, it has to be something more imaginary than a dollar, and someone else has to actually give you a dollar for it while you claim it's only one trillionth of the amount of imaginary things you could sell to people.
Note a while ago a youtuber did a stunt to illustrate: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8SYIksrZeu4