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It’s not though, right? Capital is stuff. Means of production. Land. Jet planes. Bridges. Sewing machines.

Money is just tokens that certain people are using to allocate actual capital amongst themselves.

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Exactly. The three richest people in the world:

Elon Musk. Net worth ~$248 billion.
Owns ~13% of Tesla, which is worth ~$768 billion. That’s ~$99 billion in his net worth.
Owns ~48% of SpaceX, which is worth ~$150 billion. That’s ~$72 billion in his net worth.
That means at least ~$171 billion of his net worth is in companies, which is ~69% of his wealth.

Bernard Arnault. Net worth ~$207 billion.
Owns ~41% of LVMH, which is worth ~$422 billion. That’s ~$175 billion in his net worth.
That means at least ~85% of his wealth is in companies.

Jeff Bezos. Net worth ~$161 billion.
Owns ~10% of Amazon, which is worth ~$1430 billion. That’s ~$143 billion in his net worth.
That means at least ~89% of his wealth is in companies.

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How is Tesla worth 5x SpaceX. That’s just insane to me.

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Tesla probably has a lot more customers, and if memory serves, they also make money by deals with other car companies, where Tesla’s lack of emissions offsets their excess of emissions for government regulations.

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I think you would be surprised at how much of it is in LLCs in Delware or trusts in South Dakota, there are plenty of tax loopholes domestically as well, most people under hundred-millionaire status are not doing panama papers type stuff

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delaware too, the weird states exist to be banks

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I do not understand how is completely ok with this, does he not know that when this happens…WE have to pay more of porky’s taxes for him? This isn’t just a tax revolt, it’s literally footing the bill to us.

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4 points

That country on the globe is the wrong way round.

Also Florida is on the west and Alaska in the east for some reason :S

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25 points

Fixed that for you

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9 points

Good. Can you either delete the kid in the middle or make the random ponytail attach correctly to the kid in the foreground?

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5 points

Woah I didn’t even notice that bizarre addition!

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pretty clearly the ponytale belongs to the third kid in the image

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For the last time: the richest person in the world is not bill gates or elonmusk. The richest person in the world is some random drug lord

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