• @Sanctus
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    19911 days ago

    Bitch, you came from an emerald mine, walkin’ the streets with gems in your pockets. Shut the fuck up.

    • @Hobbes_Dent
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      3111 days ago

      🎶 People say he’s crazy

      He’s got emeralds on the soles of his shoes 🎶

    • Carl
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      910 days ago

      Oh no, I think Elon downvoted you.

  • @BassTurd
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    15211 days ago

    I too lived on a dollar or less a day before becoming the lower middle class person I am today. It’s easy when your parents buy everything for you and you don’t have expenses.

    • @[email protected]
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      7111 days ago

      Exactly. Didn’t he come over for college? So he lived in a dorm (paid for by dad), had a full meal plan (paid for by dad), all his school, clothing, and insurance were taken care of… that just leaves the pack of chewing gum he bought every morning on his way to class. Pretty easy!

    • @[email protected]
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      510 days ago

      Came here to say this. It’s also remarkably easy to mooch off extended family, friends, even strangers. People usually feed their couch-surfer guests as well, who knew?

  • @[email protected]
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    7810 days ago

    The headline should read “Guy routinely talking out of his ass is talking out of his ass”.

  • @KittyCat
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    7010 days ago

    I completely believe that he was making 1$ a day at some point, he’s just neglected to talk about the 20 million he had in the bank from daddy.

    • @Omgpwnies
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      1210 days ago

      or the other thousands of dollars he also made acquired that day

    • @[email protected]
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      Probably also ignoring his college dorm, tuition fees, and probably cafeteria fees.

      There is no way you can “buy in bluk” when you have 1 dollar a day, as described in the article. You can barely get one orange per-day. Not to mention, there will be no way to reach a whole-sale store in the U.S., since you cannot afford any transportation, public or private, with 1 dollar.

  • xigoi
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    5811 days ago

    The headline and article seems to be hugely misleading. According to this article, the $1 was only for food and he did it as a challenge, not out of necessity.

    • @Agent641
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      2210 days ago

      For how long though? Because I can survive for a week or so on zero dollars a day, by fasting and foraging for dandion greens and citrus fruit from trees in public places. Longer than 2 weeks and my body would start to fail, but Id survive, technically, for a while longer.

  • @hark
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    5611 days ago

    Then he doesn’t need billions of dollars, right?

  • @gedaliyah
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    5411 days ago
    Rent: 22¢ (couch split w/ 44 friends)
    
    Breakfast: 11¢ (2 eggs)
    .......... 1¢ (electricity borrowed from neighbor)
    .......... Free (skillet found in street)
    
    Gym membership: Free (lifting rocks)
    
    Commute: 4¢ (walking in two used Kleenex boxes for shoes)
    
    Lunch: 30¢ (cup filled with ketchup from Wendy's pump)
    
    Commute home: 20¢ (walk on hands, use bandaid for blisters)
    
    Clothes: 16¢ (Scotch tape for holding together discarded pizza boxes)
    

    Yeah, that checks out.

    • @[email protected]
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      1411 days ago

      Do you think the staff at the Wendy’s get annoyed at having to see that poor bastard pump a full cup of ketchup every day.

      Like oh jeez, I hope you filled that thing today. I cannot take a half hour of the slurping noise as Johnny makes the most of his 30¢

  • @Tikiporch
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    5011 days ago

    So it only costs $365 a year to survive in America. Neat.

    • @[email protected]
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      810 days ago

      If you’re willing to exploit nearly everyone you meet for free food and shelter, yes, yes it is.

  • @[email protected]
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    4710 days ago

    “I once had to sell an emerald at half it’s market value just so I could afford to pay the maid service at my third home” 🙄

  • @aesthelete
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    4410 days ago

    Alternative headline suggestion: “Rich liar lies”.

  • @sumguyonline
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    4310 days ago

    Rent is more than a dollar a day. Without a place to code, he never would have been able to work on PayPal. If he slept in his car and worked in an office, gas is still more expensive than a dollar a day unless he moved his car only on the weekends. In short. No he didn’t. Someone else footed the bill and he only paid a buck a day for maybe food. Not as tough as doing it on your own, which he’s never done.

  • @[email protected]
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    “I saved up all week to buy one banana for $7, and that sustained me the rest of the next week!”

    -Elon Musk, clueless asshole

    Edit: Fun fact: Elon could read this a dozen times and still not get the joke.

  • HubertManne
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    I recall that even being rich his “friends” complain he wants to sleep on their couch and eat their food.

    • @200ok
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      I figured this was how he “survived on $1/day”.

        • @Fuckfuckmyfuckingass
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          I’ve heard that he said the film “Parasite” is his favorite movie. Which I couldn’t wrap my head around when I heard that years ago, but as we’ve seen there’s no level of cognitive dissonance too low for Elon.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 days ago

        Just like the tiny home show people… There’s always a friend or family member with a plot of land for them.

    • @Illuminostro
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      111 days ago

      There’s a reason rich people usually stay rich: they hate to spend their own money. On anything.