Buying Twitter made Musk "king of the sandbox," allowing him to promote free speech, but not at the cost of his own ego.
  • Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk’s personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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  • wildcardology@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    10 months ago

    Ok. Musk offered the kid $5,000 to delete his account, the kid countered with $50,000. Musk refused so he spent $44 billion instead to get rid of the account.

        • Art35ian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          10 months ago

          He’s still worth $200B.

          Spending $44B? $88B? $100B. Doesn’t matter. The dude never, ever has to think about money again. If he lives to 85 and doesn’t earn another cent between now and then, he can splash 6 billion dollars a year every year until he dies.

          To give you some understanding of that kind of money, he could roughly buy two Lamborghini Diablos every single day for the rest of his life.

        • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          That’s the point.

          He could burn 40 billion buying Twitter just to spite a kid over 50 grand because money is meaningless for Musk. He essentially has infinite wealth.

          He could spend the 50 grand the kid asked for every minute for 7 and a half years and still have 3 billion dollars.