Summary
Since Trump’s second-term inauguration, five top billionaires have lost a combined $209 billion as markets react to policy uncertainty.
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Elon Musk’s net worth plunged $148 billion as Tesla shares collapsed amid declining European and Chinese sales.
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Jeff Bezos lost $29 billion as Amazon stock fell 14%.
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Sergey Brin’s fortune dropped $22 billion following Alphabet’s weak earnings and regulatory pressure.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Bernard Arnault each lost $5 billion as Meta and LVMH stocks tumbled.
The S&P 500 is down 6.4%, reversing gains seen post-election.
proof they’re not geniuses
It remains to be seen if their kissing the ring was strategic or just tactical (apart from Musk, who is committed), but what they’ve bought wasn’t a good economy. They bought into the transition from democracy and capitalism to authoritarian oligarchy.
Dollars don’t describe the value of Russia-level corruption, which is where the country is now pointed. And the longer-term gains from captured institutions would far outpace a hundred billion dollars or two, if they succeed.
Small but important point. We’ve been an oligarchy for a while now. We’re just losing the pretense of it being a democracy.
Technically we’ve been an oligarchy since day 1. It just didn’t have oligarchy vibes.
I’m sure they still have plenty of liquid assets to scoop up discounted stocks. Tax cuts will save conglomerates money, which they’ll use for stock buybacks to inflate the worth of their stocks, which had already been picked up by the billionaires. This will reinflate their net worth.
Plus, and I don’t know how or when this would be involved in the calculation of their net worth, but they’re probably shorting stocks with insider info passed around Mar-a-Lago. Just a guess.
They’ll be fine. The rest of us will continue to be screwed even harder. Fuck them billionaires.
That’s not enough
It’s a relatively small price to pay for the power they gained, and most of the losses are elons anyway
We need to keep pumping those numbers up
The Top 10 Richest Americans have a combined wealth total of $1,548 TRILLION.
$209 billion is only
0.13%13.5% of the of Top 10.We need to get those numbers higher.
Edit: I suck at math, as it was pointed out to me
That doesn’t stack up, Musk is the richest, currently worth $324Bn - they can’t be worth more than $3.24Tn combined.
I think they replaced the period with a comma.
The %s are all out of whack too, it’s more like 13%, which, while not enough, is a lot more than 0.13%.
For sure, Google tells me there’s only 21.2T USD in circulation.
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You seem to have forgotten to multiply by 100 after you divided 209 by 1,548.
209 is 13.5% of 1,548, not 0.13%.
Edit: It is a bit disturbing how many people upvote things without making even the most basic sanity check.
Comparing my net worth to that total net worth? I’d be upset, but not terribly so, if I lost $1000 too.
But since I would be getting it back later, and then some, it’s more like a small investment only . Definitely worth the small risk,
Not low enough. We can do better!
lol
When someone has this much money, it doesn’t matter if they buy the presidency, buy the media, buy the means to live, buy people’s rights… It doesn’t matter. They will never get the respect and love they desperately seek like all humans do. They will never love themselves until they understand that their wealth isn’t earned and they aren’t special. We don’t consider ourselves better than anyone as a human and then not get depressed and lonely. It’s not difficult for us to accept kinship with all humans, but almost impossible for them.
Daily Reminder:
They deserve to lose so much more.
Unfortunately this hurts many other people more than those few. Anyone with a 401k or investments, people who work for those companies, and consumers will all have their lives impacted more than the billionaires. It should have never gotten to that point of having these billionaires to begin with.
I understand that and I sympathize, but sadly all of our “investments” are the reason these billionaires exist. Nobody has ever become a billionaire by making and selling products, it’s always come down to going public and selling people on the illusion of infinite exponential growth. Even the investments that are considered conventionally “safe” (like index funds) are just another way to funnel money towards the biggest companies and the richest people.
I wish I had the answer, because obviously we all want to save for retirement, but the entire system feels like it’s broken in a way that is designed to enrich people like Musk and Bezos.
Good let’s make it another 200 billion EACH and even then that won’t be enough as they’ll all still have hundreds of billions of dollars which is absolutely insane
Unfortunately our own pensions and such are also getting wiped out by the same forces. And with less access to insider information.
They would become weak enough for us to start curbstomping
These are the same billionaires that donated millions to the inauguration. How’s that RoI on bribery going techbros?
Those are rookie numbers! We’ve got to pump that number!
Numbers must go down! The Board requires it.
Gotta start somewhere! Keep it going!
We have to Trump those numbers.
Yes, the more they lose the more we win.
PERSONAL AUSTERITY!!! SAVE YOUR MONEY AND LET THE RICH GO FUCK THEMSELVES!!!
You don’t win by them just losing some money. Redistribution is the name of the game. Even if Tesla hits 0/share, you aren’t getting any more wealth just by virtue of that happening.
…Aside from basking in the downfall of a nazi of course, but those are priceless things.
The win is the diminishment of his economical power. Same goes for Amazon and Meta. Transitioning off of any dependence of those websites and services will empower us and remove these shitheads’ influence.
Rookie numbers. Needs more.
