cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23222473
Elon Musk is worth less than Vladimir Putin, and any number of Saudi Arabian royals
And that’s just white declared. Ia nothong xompared to the amount of money some oligarchs has in black. Moving around in the not seen business
All three of them aren’t worth much, truth be told.
Yep. If all 3 of them died in a freak submarine accident tomorrow, nothing would change in the world.
I was hoping that billionaires dying in submarine accidents was going to become a trend.
Buncha pussies like Bezos and Zuckerberg could never take out someone as rich and powerful as Elon.
Buncha pussies like Larry Ellison and Warren Buffet could never take out someone as rich and powerful as Bezos and Zuck.
And so on. Problem solved.
It’s weird how in English you say “he is worth x” if you just mean he has x money/assets
I don’t want to argue against the correctness of the sentence in English (I think you’re correct with that). I’m just uncomfortable by the conflation of two meanings. This makes:
“He spent his last penny” technically the same as “He is worth nothing”
So a rich person is “worthy”, which also means they are good, have achieved good things, and we are happy they exist. A poor person is “unworthy” and we can throw them away like garbage. That conflation is a problem to me.
I’m from a primarily English speaking place and you’re absolutely right. The phrase is completely bizarre. Like we could talk about assets, but we equate it to the person, and it’s a phrase that comes from the upper echelons of the capitalist ruling class and now everyone uses it. Like we’ve all just accepted the reality that our society doesn’t care about people unless they can pay.