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That's exactly what he is.
by /u/CurvyChristina | 111 comments | 2026-06-12T20:12:57+00:00 Central
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| /u/LaloMcNombres We are the worst monkeys ever. |
| /u/FILTHBOT4000 Nah, pretty much par for the course for primates, and other animals at that. Bigger monkeys will pin down smaller ones and eat them by peeling them apart, just because they like doing it that way. The way adult macaques treat little Punch in those viral videos is also very much par for the course for their behavior in the wild; they will bully, abuse, and torment/torture the socially awkward, even if they're young. Reverting to this tech neofeudalism is more animalistic, more base and primal than what we'd define as 'human' in comparison to beasts: the big, powerful get to take all they want. |
| /u/oberonkof Not true, studies have been done with monkeys hoarding. The other pride members attack them abd take everything of them and share. He should be made to give his money back to the countries and people's who suffered to fund his and his ancestors greed. The same as all the others sat on dirty money. |
| /u/Bozzzzzzz We need Robin Hood more than ever. |
| /u/theartofrolling Unfortunately he's a capitalist day trading app now |
| /u/macronotice I love this whole metaphor because it lets you know who thinks everything they need will just naturally grow on trees in the wild for them to pick at their leisure. |
| /u/StrengthBeginning416 Well pretty soon they'll start to figure out that AI can't buy Amazon groceries or Teslas. Wealth on paper is different than tangible bananas if you ask an Ape |
| /u/lolatyourbs Except, that thought process assumes billions of humans are a necessity. We aren't. |
| /u/Excellent_Valuable92 Not "we." I'm not a billionaire |
| /u/milkyheika Monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground |
| /u/libertad740 Under appreciated song! |
| /u/CampPineCone Cornelius and Zira should study us. Tay-lor! Tay-lor! https://giphy.com/gifs/Ic97mPViHEG5O |
| /u/awe_come_on Not this monkey/missing link? https://preview.redd.it/yo4px871iy6h1.png?width=547&for mat=png&auto=webp&s=4c94f9b3aecb66b6ee2da2acda8800f11f5f 3745 |
| /u/be_reasonable_bro Wouldn't be much left to study. I'm pretty sure the other monkeys would tear the first monkey apart. |
| /u/Marx_Forever Exactly it's not the first monkey that would be studied. It's perfectly natural for animals to hoard resources for themselves. It'd be the rest of the monkeys that let them get away with it that would be the fascination. |
| /u/Spookyrabbit It's not. While it is perfectly natural for non-pack animals in snowy winter climates to hoard resources for themselves and relatives to survive the frozen winter months, across the rest of nature animals take only what they need to survive1. 1 Except in the case of orcas that have developed a taste for the livers of great white sharks. That's almost entirely recreational eating but they still don't hoard the livers. |
| /u/Hestiathena No no, all the hoarding monkey has to do is begrudgingly give a few bananas to two specific groups of monkeys. One group fights any other monkeys that get too close. The other group tells the rest that tearing the hoarder apart for any reason is evil, because maybe someday they'll be the ones with all the bananas. |
| /u/peon2 I'm pretty sure scientists/psychologists/psychiatrists have studied things like narcissism, greed, selfishness, and lack of empathy quite extensively. |
| /u/send_in_the_clouds Yeah they have. Apparently the more rich you become the less you need to read peoples emotions as you become surrounded by people who want to please you. This to me does make sense, as they do seem genuinely confused why poor people can't just work harder or spend less frivolously. They basically become completely out of touch and lose the ability to feel empathy like we do. |
| /u/godtrek I actually think it's more interesting that the other monkeys don't kill that hoarding monkey, and instead, rather starve than take those bananas by force, because I don't think there's something wrong with a monkey hoarding bananas, that sounds like something a monkey would and could do, what is more concerning and interesting from a study perspective, is all the other monkeys rather die slowly and painfully rather than doing anything at all to solve this problem. Rather than speaking in metaphor. I'll speak plainly. If I was an alien who came across earth, I would be more fascinated why all the people on earth even tolerate or allow this to occur when literally the difference between them keeping all that money and not, is our unwillingness to do anything about it. We've been intellectually and emotiobally captured and we're being held hostage, we've been conditioned since birth that it's wrong to do anything because to do anything that changes anything, requires a firm action such as purging the top and redistributing the wealth so lift the floor up so it's toching the ceiling. How convenient, that it's "morally wrong" to survive and remove the tumor and cancer from soceity because "cancer are people too", when in this metaphor, being a cancer is a choice, so it's morally wrong to stop people from choosing to be cancer and we just have to accept it? They've offloaded all the responsibility and ethics onto us, so we have to consider if we're evil or not for prioritizing peace, and it's not their responsibility or ethics to minimize the chances they'll be killed for doing evil. It's ok to murder people for profit, it's not ok to murder the people who murder people for profit. That's how they've fucked us from birth, so we feel frozen when it's time to act. |
| /u/Opposite-Current7407 But he's not sitting on the bananas. Everyone is walking around using his bananas. |
| /u/MasterTittie Best comment, the harsh truth |
| /u/plastic_alloys They've invested a lot of money ensuring the masses are busy raging about immigrants instead of these ghouls |
| /u/Lanky-Relationship77 Immigrants and LGBTQ people. Anything to distract the marching morons away from the fact that they are getting their pockets picked by these pricks. |
| /u/FYIgfhjhgfggh Don't forget the droves of writers, publishers, journalists, bloggers and the rest who happily went along and sung in tune for a tiny slice of the pie or just for lols. All of them morally disconnected from their effect on society. And the fools that believe and repeat their speil without comprehension. People will stab you for an empty wallet. Being a billionaire makes it easy. |
| /u/Numerous-Bonus-8107 I'm convinced the dude that got assassinated trying to build a giant gun that would shoot satellites into space for like 1% the cost of a rocket launch (only he was trying to build it for saddam Hussein after Canada canceled it), had way better ideas about exploring space than Musk could even be able to read about and comprehend. |
| /u/CurvyChristina https://giphy.com/gifs/xkmNi280NkrcY |
| /u/Alpha_Omega623 I am not a fucking lab rat. |
| /u/Numerous-Bonus-8107 prove it, take back the single income family style economy and stop them destroying the ecosystem with data centers to see if us rats adapt or die off from deep within their bunkers. |
| /u/_ChimpOut_ This but forcing us to live with the uncivilized |
| /u/unclecastr0-_- but we can't solve world hunger straight away eh |
| /u/BitNumerous5302 If nobody was starving and he only had a dollar that dude would still be just a cunt |
| /u/Swamp_Thing85 You're not wrong, but at least I wouldn't know who he was. |
| /u/Haunting-Ad788 Tbf he doesn't have a trillion dollars, he has multiple heavily overvalued meme stock companies. |
| /u/Dramatic-Ad7192 Soon to be backed by our 401ks |
| /u/Large-Shelter-5149 Thankfully not too soon, integration rules went unchanged https://spotgamma.com/spacex-ipo-index-changes-spotgamm a/ |
| /u/WhoPutATreeThere The Nasdaq and Russell are both changing their rules to let them in, last I saw.. This will force those funds to buy an estimated $22B-$27B of SPCX. Aka we will be bailing out xAI with our 401ks.. |
| /u/D3Construct And god knows how many subsidiaries and suppliers that keep people employed and fed. |
| /u/mhcrayz Yeah this. I don't understand what people expect him or other billionaires to do. Sell all their shares and donate the money for something? As long as there is a stock market and successful businesses there will be billionaires and now even trillionaires. |
| /u/The_New_Overlord Yeah, net worth is not the same as actual money in the bank. He has far less actual cash, and yet, still far too much. |
| /u/DandadanAsia yes but at the same time. NO. 'cause he can use his shares of SpaceX or Tesla as collateral to borrow shit ton of money from bank and use it for hooker and blow. Rich people use "Buy, borrow, die" to have a luxury life. |
| /u/protexy This. It doesn't exist as real money for tax purposes. It does exist as real money for loan collateral purposes. The "I'm really not rich guys! I have to borrow money to survive!" card is such bullshit because they do it to avoid paying taxes, and those loans have an interest rate so low that it's basically nothing. |
| /u/Electronic-Worry4077 Don't need to explain that here it's Reddit. People here don't understand valuation. They think this guy literally has 1T sitting in his Bank of America 0% interest checking account. You can't even turn all that valuation into 1T in cash. It's all inflated. The moment he sells maybe $200b everything just crashes and his total net worth drops signify |
| /u/HumphreyPoopypants Let's not forget he also cut off funding that directly resulted in children starving, as well as screw worms and some other things. |
| /u/mattjb Not just starved, but outright killed hundred of thousand of children in a very short span of time. But a neo-Nazi doesn't care if a significant number of African children die. https://www.theverge.com/tech/949259/the-worlds-first-t rillionaire-is-a-killer |
| /u/PCmaniac24 He also cut necessary funding for jobs that need to exist. Friend of mine lost their job at the VA because of DOGE, and then saw the exact same job listed under a private business job application. Come to find out they needed that job, but now instead of paying someone directly, they are paying a company that takes more for profit, and the person working the job is making significantly less income. So more spending, not less, and the overhead of more paperwork and less efficiency. |
| /u/hernablig Let's not rob him of accolades. He's also the richest fake science genius of all time. |
| /u/v_cats_at_work Apparently he wouldn't even be a billionaire by today's standards, worth "only" a couple hundred million USD. |
| /u/linkedinlover69 Why does he feel the need to incite 'race wars' and divide instead of becoming the msot liked person in the world by fighting injustice, hunger, corruption and so on? |
| /u/Excellent_Valuable92 Because all those billionaires care about impressing their deranged, ketamine-addled peers and don't care one bit about the rest of us. |
| /u/linkedinlover69 Yes, understandable. Why not get love everywhere and respect by actually tackling issues? There are enough everywhere. I honestly don't understand |
| /u/scipio0421 Remember he was offered the chance to literally end world hunger using a small portion of his fortune, including a detailed plan on how it would work. He said "nah." |
| /u/Excellent_Valuable92 These people are fucked in the head. They follow a vile philosophy that stems from their vile values. It is absolutely insane. Bezos, for example, could have made Amazon into an amazing place to work, a model of sustainability, and an asset to communities and probably have just as much money. |
| /u/linkedinlover69 Instead he bought an important newspaper and influences politics. I guess humans can never get enough. |
| /u/CarpenterRadio Anti social personality disorder seems to be common amongst them. Makes you wonder how they were raised and in what kind of environment. They don't see us as human or if they do they see themselves as something more. |
| /u/Excellent_Valuable92 We know Thiel was partly raised in pro-Nazi, pro-Apartheid community. He was brought up to see humans as unequal and himself as the best kind. Musk was also brought up among pro-Apartheid beneficiaries of this thinking. I think an ideological rationale is as significant as the psychological flaw. |
| /u/plastic_alloys You don't become a trillionaire by being a good person, or a normal person with a normal penis |
| /u/weareeverywhereee Yeah what's crazy is usually ketamine has the opposite effect - makes you want to help others more, oneness with all, etc. psychs can really break an ego down - amazed the ego loss doesn't hit him |
| /u/Choice_Volume_2903 Because you can only become that wealthy by screwing people over in the worst ways. When a person behaves like that, they develop a kind of fortress mindset and lose the capacity to relate to anyone else in an authentic or meaningful way. It makes them incredibly lonely, angry and bitter, and results in the behavior you described. |
| /u/inprocess13 In a world where children were at risk of running out of air, he called their rescuers pedophiles and then went to go work with one. |
| /u/irish_faithful For the trillionth time, you do realize that money isn't liquid right? He doesn't have a bank account with $1 trillion sitting in it. Governments have way more cash than he does. Be upset with them for squandering tax dollars on stupid stuff and not feeding starving children. |
| /u/thatwasagoodscan Do people think being a trillionaire/billionaire means you have literally trillion/billion dollars? Like cash? |
| /u/EppuBenjamin No, nobody thinks that. But we do think he can take a loan on his assets and buy what ever the fuck. Like another overvalued meme company. Which in practice is the same thing as having cash. Or even better, bc he gets to keep the collateral. |
| /u/rice_n_gravy Nobody? Seriously? Have you read Reddit? |
| /u/Kheypression Plenty of people actually do. That's why they believe he could solve world hunger. |
| /u/AxeSkewsMe The trillionaire title is symbolic of a really stupid and broken system and just stroking the ego of these sociopaths and giving them more power. Elon literally became the first un-elected billionaire to run a fake department in the US government. The title is far more valuable than actual cash. |
| /u/Artemus_Hackwell IKR? The alleged trillion is a potential value of what is promised to him after he completes a bullet list of various successes as defined by the board of a publicly traded company. Including the value of current share holdings, value of assets at his privately held concerns, market worth of those concerns. He doesn't, and no one else has a trillion dollars in liquid form. That would be like the fictional character Scrooge McDuck. |
| /u/Mu57y Genuinely astounding the number of people who talk about wealth this way. Even ignoring the fact that most of this wealth is equity, his liquid cash is constantly being spent, lent out (via banks), and/or otherwise circulated. There's no "hoarding" lmao |
| /u/meatinmybriefs Just because an asset isn't liquid doesn't mean it's not an asset. |
| /u/Jesusfailedshopclass https://giphy.com/gifs/bISrck3AsmWUU |
| /u/MikeTiricoSucks Reddit is so jealous of other people's money If you want to solve world hunger so bad, get a flip phone and send $25/month to charity instead of paying a $100 phone bill for your super computer made by a child slave in China |
| /u/sikon024 I was doing that with my taxes and he cancelled USAID. He took food out of the mouths of starving children... And remember the time he offered to pay to end world hunger if shown a plan and a budget? And backed out when given a plan and a budget? We're not jealous of his money. We're disappointed that so much of the world's capital and power is held by a complete Cunt. And a probable pedo. |
| /u/Unbiasedj Why not put blame on the mayors, governors, and leaders of their own city/state instead of using Elon as an easy scapegoat lol Are we gonna blame Elon for the rampant homelessness in CA where Billions of tax payer $ is wasted on solving said issue? |
| /u/autouzi Because the Epstein class buys the government and makes the laws? |
| /u/CarpenterRadio Why not provide your comprehensive solution to homelessness and wealth inequality instead of JAQ'ing off all over the place? lmao |
| /u/Substantial-Equal661 Nice try, but no one here blamed him for homelessness in CA. I can tell that you are used to your logical fallacies tricking people that you actually know what you're talking about. |
| /u/marjer6 Billionaires and trillionaires... Not millionaires because I am one. - Bernie Sanders |
| /u/Vegetable_Heart369 Everyone who agrees with this has no idea how the world works |
| /u/Simalt443 Nobody thinks he's sitting on a vault of cash with 1 trillion in it bozo |
| /u/lewd-Euphoric-robot Then you do understand how the world works, and still agree with something demonstrably false? |
| /u/Simalt443 I don't think he's sitting on 1 trillion of liquid assets and at the same time I think he's a disgusting greedy sack of garbage. Not hard to understand. |
| /u/alliejim98 With Elon being a trillionaire, or with the post? |
| /u/Pathetian I don't think its the first part people don't understand, its the second part. You can't solve manmade famines with money. People are mostly starving in conflict zones like Palestine, Haiti, Sudan etc. No amount of money can feed those people. You need an army to go in and overthrow the locals if you want to feed anyone who isn't being fed. In the case of Palestine...you kinda need to overthrow Israel which means overthrowing the US as well I think. Assuming Musk woke up one day and wanted to go balls deep on trying to feed Palestine, 1 trillion dollars cannot overthrow the US. And I doubt anyone would be cheering if he announced he was going to send mercenaries to take over Haiti. I don't like Musk, but some things can't be bought. You can't just Venmo someone in Sudan some money for DoorDash to solve that crisis. |
| /u/Soft_Function_6357 says someone who's never donated a dollar |
| /u/ilmalocchio It's easy and fun to volunteer donations from someone else. Especially if they have more than me, because that must mean there's something wrong with them. |
| /u/Leather-Glass6504 People not understanding founders owning capital stock will always be frustrating |
| /u/Automatic-Guide-4307 Greed will be the end of us and we seem unable to stop it. |
| /u/Defiant-Car834 It's funny how people don't understand wealth. It's also funny how people simplify complex issues into a simple pretext of a man being a cunt. |
| /u/Sword-of-Akasha "Look at those starving children, I could totally feed them and give them an education, housing, ya know the works. BUUUUUT I won't hahahahahha. I could! But I won't! It'd be not even the relative cost of a burrito for me. But I won't! Their suffering gives makes me soooo hot." |
| /u/Livid-Writer-7741 TAX THE RICH AND CHURCHES AND PEDOPHILES |
| /u/JaxCon2121 Ah yes the famous pedophile exemption law |
| /u/IsSomeonesThere Goverment take 99% money from progressive taxes to themselves and only 1% goes to the people who nees momey btw. Social justice politics are not effective. |
| /u/TeasingChloe It's the absolute lack of subtlety that makes it a masterpiece. |
| /u/Lucky_Pangolin_3760 as if any of you are different. There are starving children while you live in apartments with air conditioning |
| /u/solidlymediocre The fact is a single, enormously rich donor has far, far more impact than a million donors that give 10 bucks each. This goes for politics, sports, charity Etc |
| /u/Lucky_Pangolin_3760 From a quick google search there are more than 2 billion people who have more than $10k Each of these people can make a donation of $100 (0.1% of their net worth) That will result in 200 billion dollars in liquid cash, which is far more money than Elon could ever liquidate |
| /u/CarpenterRadio And then....what? Americans were pooling their tax dollars to end child hunger and disease overseas but Elon put an end to that. An entire apparatus and infrastructure dedicated to ending poverty and disease, dude could have just given USAID more money instead he dismantled it. Weird that there hasn't been a single conviction or corruption charge based on DOGE's "investigation" as well, seems like USAID was actually functional and by all accounts making every dollar go as far as possible. He did manage to steal and disseminate ten of millions' of Americans SSN's so at least there's that. |
| /u/Excellent_Valuable92 It's not a problem that can be solved by out charity. Musk is capable of funding systemic change |
| /u/Lucky_Pangolin_3760 You can too. In third world countries you're by all means rich and can fund programs, start companies, hire people etc |
| /u/Ilovebooks2345 I have a few statements/questions 1.Was that 10K in liquid assets or net worth? Where did you learn math? It's 1%, not 0.01%, which would actually only be €10 Did it occur to you that these people may have things to save up for, such as buying a home? 10K is not a lot of money when it comes to living, in Ireland, for example, the cost of living for a family of 4 (rent, utilities, food) is quoted as being as high as €5272 a MONTH, meaning, in this case, 10K wouldn't even cover 2 months. €100 is not a small sum of money, a Google search showed that that is around the cost of a week of groceries for a family of 3 in Ireland. |
| /u/KindaWannaDoIt But if people can't blame the Elon, who do they blame for their own position in life? You can't seriously be advocating for people to be accountable for their own decisions. Sir, this is Reddit. |
| /u/kingfofthepoors 20% of my incomes goes to feeding the hungry |
| /u/FantasyTrash Imagine bootlicking a trillionaire, my goodness. Also, I pay these things called taxes. So yes, I am different and certainly a better person than Elon Musk. Now, unfortunately, those taxes are being used to fund Israel and a war on Iran no one asked for, but I would prefer if those taxes did, in fact, actually help people. |
| /u/SasquatchPhD I donate money, pay taxes, support social programs, and directly help people on the street when I can - while having a net worth that is a laughable, barely fraction of his. And I don't have air conditioning. Maybe you're just a douche |
| /u/ddplz There are starving children while city dwellers buy $30 starbucks orders and ubereats their meals daily. |
| /u/Cuandoman https://giphy.com/gifs/eOsjVyuzpObF0uvUVs |
| /u/Additional-Gur2444 Stop portraying rich people as naive or dumb. They know exactly what they're doing |
| /u/WelpThatHappened81 The worst part is he actually thinks 1) he deserves it and 2) he's making the world a better place. Huge lack of truth on both counts. This is not the person to lead us into a healthy future. |
| /u/BoxsterMan_ He doesn't have a trillion dollars...his value is a trillion. What don't you people understand? |