There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Don’t believe the self-made myth.
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Don’t believe the self-made myth.
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1) Be a psychopath/sociopath
2) Exploit all your workers by not paying a thriving wage and blame immigrants.
Being explicit about "worker exploitation" (inclusive of obscenely excessive Executive pay packages) is probably worthwhile messaging.
Rare but real.
If only someone had the balls to, I don't know, prevent him from re-running?
6) Overcharging for goods and services, i.e. gouging consumers
7) Underpaying the workers who actually create the products and provide the services
6) Incompetence by elected officials.
This is the case for Musk.
Examples:
1) Obama privatized space and then gave huge gov contracts to SpaceX.
2) Gov gave huge grants to Tesla, with no strings attached. Why not limit executive pay? Or get stock?
Even you Mark Cuban.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/opinion/musk-doge-personal-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk4.PMsL.89_NdqnnfrQ2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Apple? Those two that started it, they started it in a garage.
One of the founders of Google was an normal Russian immigrant.
Tayloer Swift, also made it from scratch...
And the list goes on...
Jesus wept.
Do some research.
That means you need to convince investors to well invest. I buld ages ago a conferencing site in the US...
An ISP liked it and funded the development...
What is wrong with that?
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https://bsky.app/profile/straightgoods.bsky.social/post/3lipgm6hfhc22
Get out of the loop. You're still stuck on last year's story. The narrative is "The billionaires took the country, what now?"
https://99-percent.org/the-majority-of-the-uk-population-is-fighting-for-its-interests-against-a-small-number-of-far-right-billionaires-whose-combined-influence-is-huge/
There's no such thing as a self-made billionaire.
5+10+10+5+1 = 31
ways of accumulating a billion dollars
(unnecessary federal science at work for you here 😁)
Inflated & fraudulent #STOCK valuation, I bet is the #BILLIONAIRE'S favorite & most common.
#CrashWallStreet
#LevelThePlayingField
“Blessed are the poor,
because yours is the kingdom of God.
...
But woe to you who are rich,
because you have received your comfort."
You know what creates work? PEOPLE!
Billionaires claim it's because of efficiency yada yada - BS.
They STOLE many others' work!
WEALTH = LABOR.
The only thing that has surprised me is Trump having not yet established a religious franchise paying him a large % of collections.
He loves easy money requiring minimum effort and nothing in return.
Mm…
clearly, the Tax System is rigged and not working as it should
https://www.forbes.com/self-made-women/?sh=5d2d13e16d96
get rid of your moral compass:
Devote your life to making money by any means necessary, even if it means exploiting and scamming people, even if it means supporting a fascist and turning a country into a dictatorship!
1. Those who understand buy Bitcoin.
2. Those who don't, criticize Bitcoin.
Educate yourself.
https://youtu.be/1PkMFIa7rmQ?si=n2DnIRg5HwQCBYZJ
Millions work hard, physical labor and hard administrative labor to become rich.
Maybe it takes a certain kind of mental illness.
6) Exploitation
Of course, your point still stands.
Why do Tesla, GE, etc. pay no taxes?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-intelligence-officer-alnur-mussayev-claims-kgb-recruited-donald-trump-under-codename-krasnov/
WTF. Stop being lazy Bob. You used to be hard hitting, analytic & insightful. Now your peddling pablim & falsities.
she still created the product
And I hate myself for speaking an unkind word.
But she was born on third base.
I love her, and respect all of the hard work she does, and all she gives. She's our generations Dolly Parton.
But if her parents didn't have money? Taylor who?
Care to enlighten me? They both sound pretty lucrative to me.
Are the hedge fund managers of the world gathered together in Switzerland warning their daughters against those stock trader types?
Stock brokers tend to manage assets for regular households (not the ultra rich) via a firm like Charles Schwab. If you’re good, you can become a millionaire from it.
Hedge fund managers manage funds for high net worth clients & institutions, and many become billionaires.
After all, how did he get to be a Billionaire when he's always been a "civil servant".
Well, no longer a servant more of a "civil self-server"
BULL SHITE BarronSter like farter like ...
U Shut Up grifter
https://www.instagram.com/p/DGWWvBaSfe0/
🇨🇦 Canada (Back to his roots?)
🇿🇦 South Africa (Homecoming?)
🇨🇳 China (New Tesla HQ?)
🇦🇪 UAE (Tax-friendly empire?)
🌕 Mars (The ultimate escape?)
Your prediction below! ⬇️
#ElonMusk #Election2028 #WhereToNext #MarsOrBust
There’s no billionaire who always paid employees fairly.
Now is our time, it's up to us.
Share.
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
We grow in someone's body, are fed/cared for by others.
We're taught by others.
We travel roads, shop at stores, & use electricity built/maintaind/providd by others.
Hundreds of ppl are involved in providng/making safe what we eat & drink.
We're sustained by love/friendship.
Not to be completely Pollyanna about it.
I very carefully selected my paternal grandfather and thus am a self made millionaire.
7) externalizing costs
Then I would help not only myself and my family and my friends, and my boyfriend but a whole bunch of people and animals.
(Jared;)
https://bsky.app/profile/proconsul.bsky.social/post/3lipicy3zus2l
7) Sell nuclear secrets to the Saudis or some megalomaniac billionaire asshole who wants to live forever but will settle for ending the world when they die.