• bedwyr@piefed.ca
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    4 hours ago

    That their money is not “real” at all as you suggest was my point. It will go up in smoke.

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      4 hours ago

      Understanding this level of finance is not hard and I don’t understand what you’re trying to prove or your resistance to it.

      What a billionaire is doing is no different (as a radical simplification to make it easy to understand) than a normal person taking a home equity loan. Your argument is that “the home isn’t real” and that’s the same as saying “SpaceX isn’t real”. The home’s value can fluctuate thanks to the real estate market, or whether or not the owner does a good job maintaining and upgrading the home. SpaceX can suffer market fluctuations and be well managed or suffer bad decisions. The money leveraged on the values of these investments is real.

      As far as what you just said I can tell that you haven’t thought one step further than making the statement, I am pointing out how the money is real. We’re done here, you plainly want to be right rather than learn how the system works.

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        4 hours ago

        The intrinisc values of his companies, and others, are a fraction of their current market value.

        When you borrow against it, when the price falls back to intrinsic value, in Musk’s case 1/100th or so of Tesla’s current valuation, they get margin calls.

        My point is not hard to understand and undeniably true. Owning theoretical money you can’t realize in full is not the same as owning assets that can be realized. Musk is not trillionaire, never was.

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            19 minutes ago

            Is that the vag of some chick you know? Doesn’t seem to be applicable here.

            My point is undeniably true, no matter how many half wits vote with you.