The wealth of the 10 richest people in the world ā a list dominated by US tech billionaires ā increased by a record amount after Donald Trumpās victory in the presidential election, according to a widely cited index.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated that the worldās 10 wealthiest people gained nearly $64bn (about Ā£49.5bn) on Wednesday, the largest daily increase since the index began in 2012.
Elon Musk, the worldās richest person, registered the largest increase with a $26.5bn addition to his fortune, which now stands at $290bn. The prominent backer of Trumpās campaign, benefited from a surge in the share price of Tesla, the electric carmaker where he is chief executive and in which he owns a 13% stake.
The gains came as tech business leaders, including Amazonās Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook parent Meta, and Appleās Tim Cook publicly congratulated Trump on his election winā¦
Great. Itāll trickle down to me any day now!
thatās pee
Are you sure? Then what have I been using to buy NFTās?
Digital piss.
If you feed the sparrow, it will shit on the workers
Big if poo
I got my $244 worth of stock value increase, Iāll be a billionaire any day now.
And thatās the entire point really.
Behind all of the sturm und drang and all of the Christian nationalist noise and all of the hate and all of the furor is, and has been from the start, a handful of fabulously wealthy psychopathic fuckwads who recignized in Trump an opportunity to protect and even expand their entirely undeserved and grotesquely destructive privilege.
Yeah this was an election of billionaires vs everyone else. Unfortunately the billionaires won by making their voters think they were playing a different game.
Any election in the USA is an election of billionaires, thanks to the system. It was just more grotesquely obvious this time because Elon is like a spoiled ten year old with no limits.
Musk already made back all the money he invested in Trump and then some. Hitched his low poly wagon to the idiot at just the right timeā¦
I cannot imagine a future where trump doesnt turn on musk. i just cant see it
Oh I agree, but Musk has fuck you money and when that happens heāll still be filthy rich.
Maybe heāll fuck off down his next k-hole permanently.
And a whooole lotta suck for the rest of humanity!
And thatās just the beginning, it will get so much worseā¦
We somehow need to convince a bunch of bozos that it isnāt about Democrat and Republican anymore. Itās rich versus poor.
Nah, nobody cares.
Most people donāt give a shit about politics. They hear some rich fuckwad say āMexicans are stealing your jobsā and āHaitians are eating chihuahuasā and āThe schools are changing Timmys into Tinas,ā and itās oh my god they gotta vote for Trump. Itās not intellectual, itās reptilian.
How do we get through to them, all the victims who <i>know</i> theyāre victims, but never figure out whoās victimizing them? Thatās the insolvable riddle-me-this-Batman.
Whatever. This is what people wanted. #ThankRepublicans
I wish I was one of those 10 people. Hell Iāll take #11 even.
you wish you were a monster who exploited hundreds of thousands of people beneath you in order to hoard more money any person could ever spend like the dragons who sleep on piles of gold in the stories- the stories where every reader is rooting for the knight to stab the dragon in the soft underbelly? thats what you whish for?
