depends on whether he can give us AI robo catgirl waifus or not

I mean the nations would have to put themselves up for sale, but they are more likely to default on their debts and use sovereign immunity to gyp the creditors than do that.

Originally posted by Tonepoet:

I mean the nations would have to put themselves up for sale, but they are more likely to default on their debts and use sovereign immunity to gyp the creditors than do that.

Money talks, BS walks.

People are bought out all the time.

Nah, we'll explode ourselves long before something like that happens.

Sending even lightweight spacecraft to Mars is about 100x more difficult than the moon. Retrieving a heavy metal laden payload from Mars is currently science fiction. And that's just Mars.

Shifting that goal to a mining operation in the asteroid belt introduces thousands of new variables we have zero practical experience with and represents another massive difficulty and logistics multiplier.


Besides, SpaceX has still barely matched ♥♥♥♥ that NASA was doing 50-60 years ago, even with enormously higher budgets.

Not really.
Money is only worth something if people say it is.
Same with resources.

Elon: "Behold! I have mined tons of pure gold!"
Governments: *shrug* "Cool, you have a bunch of worthless yellow rocks. Good for you, I guess?"

Originally posted by Bassturd:

If Elon get's to space before other nations do

He still hasn't reached Mars. The asteroid belt is even further.

Excuse me if I'm not holding my breath on it.

Originally posted by Bassturd:

making him one very wealthy individual

He's rich enough as to have enough money to end world hunger. He decided to spend that money on a social site to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ instead. Or in building enviromentally damaging virtual robo waifus.

Elon Musk couldn't be a ruler of earth because he wasn't born in the US.

Originally posted by Bassturd:

Originally posted by Tonepoet:

I mean the nations would have to put themselves up for sale, but they are more likely to default on their debts and use sovereign immunity to gyp the creditors than do that.

Money talks, BS walks.

People are bought out all the time.

Yeah, but in such a corrupt world your rights are only as good as your ability to defend them. Sure, "when money speaks the truth goes silent" but also "when power speaks, even money takes three steps back" and "those who create the rules are often the first to break them". Sovereignty is bigger than just money.

If the world's nations really want his stuff so badly, they shall just use their armies to steal it, unless he has an army of his own, and even if he gets that trillion dollar bonus Bernie claims is on the table from Tesla, he could only personally fund a military like the U.S.A's. for a year assuming dollar for dollar purchasing parity. Tesla is only worth 1.33 trillion as it stands, and the combined income of Space X, Twitter and Tesla combined is about $116 billion.

This puts his current corporate income just under nations like Ethiopia and Bulgaria. I can't imagine either of those nations conquering the world as things stand, or even both of them put together. And seriously? What does somebody get out of ruling the world anyway? Sounds like a whole bunch of hassle and responsibility without very much in the way of personal benefit.

Tell me what Musk wants that he can't already get with the wealth he already has. The ability to behead his enemies? Jeffery Epstein's Harem? I hate to make such outlandishly evil suggestions, but it has to be something the world as it stands would not otherwise let him do unless he held the cards of sovereignty. Heck, even that might not suffice to want to conquer the whole world. He only needs control over small nation to do those sorts of things.

Besides, even if he was able to grease enough palms to "legally" buy out a nation, you have to consider that there are limits to what a nation's subjects will accept and if a king is not careful, he can find himself fastened to the very guillotine he used to execute others.

We've already seen the lefties lose it just over Trump and Musk trying to trim the national budget, and here's the thing: The lefties won. Musk backed down. I doubt Musk even has the backbone to take over the world based upon that.

If we are going to make the assumption that people are utterly corrupt, then we have to take it to the natural conclusion that they will behave in a way that is utterly corrupt whenever it suits them, and take into consideration why they do not otherwise behave that way.

Elon Musk has the money but he is not a world leader capable of ruling Earth.

The first ruler of the Earth will be a reptilian

No his masters will be. The puppet is always outranked by the puppeteer

Originally posted by Bassturd:

Does this information scare you? What do you think?

He could also take his theoretical net worth, and go to a bank to take a loan, and live on that. Because only that his net worth is 400 gazillion dollars doesn´t mean that he has any money. So if he takes a loan to make a living, he´s actually super poor, despite being good enough to get billions of dollars as loans - which he can invest to have more theoretical wealth, to get more loans. And since he has no money, he doesn´t need to pay taxes - while living the life of a billionaire.

What do You think?

Elon musk is an adult who behave like a 15 year old

lolno

Originally posted by lailaamell:

Elon musk is an adult who behave like a 15 year old

But so does Trump. Or Putin for that matter.