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    A question I have is once you are a billionaire, why do you need more money?

    What is there left that you can’t buy?

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      It’s a dick measuring competition with their buddies at that point, at the expense of the rest of us.

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        Not necessarily true. More money at that level isn’t about more material possessions or even more services: it’s about more power and influence. It’s playing toward oligarchy.

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          I didn’t say anything about possessions and purchasing power, the competition in that echelon is about who has more ability to bend the world around them, thus the dick measuring comment.

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      The personality required to “earn” a billion dollars off the backs of your working employees is exactly why it will never be enough for them. Have enough money that all your grandchildren’s entire lives are paid for? Then it’s now about control. Who can you influence and how much of your shitty mentality can you project onto others?

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      Billion dollars grows by 70 million passively per year. Next year you have 1,070,000,000 which grows by 74.9 million and next year by 80 million and so on. Basically the more money you have the easier it is to make more money.

      Also, a billionaire doesn’t have billion dollars in the bank. That’s not what being a billionaire means.

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      People who want money for specific things and will eventually be satisfied stop long before reaching billionaire status.

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      What is there left that you can’t buy?

      Politicians are cheap, but getting the President of the USA to let you have all the power of the US President is pretty expensive.

      Unless you’re Putin. But Musk managed to do it without being Putin.

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      A city on Mars? I’m pretty sure that’s what Elon is trying to buy, he’s paying several billion dollars to work on it.