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He has a jet because, honestly, he is traveling constantly for his work. Call it a tax on running multiple large operations. Given his long work days I can see
by twawaaay 4y ago
He has a jet because, honestly, he is traveling constantly for his work. Call it a tax on running multiple large operations. Given his long work days I can see how the jet pays for itself many times over.
And renting a yacht for $7k is actually super cheap. I know people who spend more on champagne in a club in a single evening, and no, they are not billionaires.
Even if this yacht was rented 365 days a year, which I do not believe, this would be $2.5M / year.
Even if this absolutely worst case (I don't believe for a second that Elon is partying on the yacht for large part of the year) you could still rent it for literally hundreds of years and still not match the cost of just buying your own large yacht. Forget about insurance, maintenance and staffing costs.
If you want to pass judgment on what is and what is not frugality when it comes to billionaires, you need to expand your views a bit and stop thinking like a poor person.
- oblio 4y agoDude, he also has a $70 million jet, which costs about as much as a yacht. Let's be honest here. > If you want to pass judgment on what is and what is not frugality when it comes to billionaires, you need to expand your views a bit and stop thinking like a poor person. Also :-))) We're not talking poor here. We're talking "makes more money in 1 month than the richest lawyer you know" rich.
- twawaaay 4y ago> Dude, he also has a $70 million jet, which costs about as much as a yacht. Let's be honest here. First, I am not your dude. Second, please, read the comment before you respond. I addressed it. $70M is a drop in the ocean when you are in tens of billions of dollars especially when it is your work tool that lets you move fast between locations and save couple of hours on each trip.
- oblio 4y ago> First, I am not your dude. Maybe you are?
- i_like_apis 4y agoChiming I here. “Dude …” is a dumb thing to say in a debate. Please take take that over to Reddit.
- twixfel 4y agoAlso chiming in here, it's not a big deal at all to call someone "dude", because this isn't a formal debate, it's just a web forum.
- i_like_apis 4y ago… the steady decline of HN over the decades …
- twixfel 4y agoThe person complaining about saying "dude" already lowered the tone of the drasticaly debate by saying, apparently without a hint of irony, "stop thinking like a poor person." So I agree there's a lot of low quality, revolting posts here but the use "dude" doesn't really scratch the surface.
- oblio 4y ago> “Dude …” is a dumb thing to say in a debate. Is it insulting?
- i_like_apis 4y agoAs a part of a retort in an argument, it’s similar to rolling one’s eyes. It’s also not substantive.
- jacquesm 4y agoNo, but it is annoying and when in a debate it tries to distract and/or claim some kind of familiarity or higher ground.