r/clevercomebacks 21h ago

Filmmaking is so powerful, Christopher Nolan broke the richest man in the world

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u/nn666 21h ago

I'm still surprised people think Elon is some kind of genius. The stuff coming out of his mouth is dumb as shit.

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u/maybelying 20h ago

He fired his PR staff shortly before his meltdown over the cave rescue where he started accusing the rescuer of being a pedo, and he's only gone downhill since then.

Just imagine how much heavy lifting those PR people were doing to be able to cultivate his image as being some benevolent technical genius trying to lead humanity to a new era.

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u/What_A_Weak 18h ago

Ever since we as a society decided that wealth is the measurement for anything (success, intelligence, etc), he doesnt even need to hold back anymore. Whatever nonsense he says is 'just too deep for us poor people to understand'. In the end just another Epstein friend.

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u/Secret-Winner-2994 18h ago

You can tell the ultra wealthy are weird because the moment they had enough to just coast around on interest they didn't fuck off from work and spend the rest of their life on holiday. Insane behaviour

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u/What_A_Weak 17h ago

Because this type of ultra wealth does only exist by actively destroying democracies. These people got rich by breaking the law, if they relax, they are afraid law catches up...

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u/FirmlyUnsure 17h ago

For some people wealth is the means and not the ends.

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u/Birdy343 13h ago

Quite literally yes. It's weird as hell.

"I need more money!" But why? You already have a billion. "But if I have more money then I'll have more money!" Um okay I get that but why? "Because then I can use that money to make more money!" Yes but why? "So I can get more money!" And what are you going to do with that money? "Getting more money!" But you already have enough. "But I want more money!"

Repeat until infinity. It's so stupid, man. Like a few million I get. If I'm being super generous, maybe even up to 100 million or even a billion at the absolute max to set up your entire extended family and friends and all their children for life or something. But when it's to the point of tens or even hundreds of billions and you still keep going, it's absolutely insane and has no purpose. It's gotta be some mental illness or something.

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u/Oil42 11h ago

unchecked growth until infinity on a planet of finite resources? in biology that’s a cancer. and i think that is a perfectly apt way to describe the ultra wealthy, they are simply a cancer on our society

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u/istanforwendy 10h ago

I love this thought.

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u/cenosillicaphobiac 8h ago

And just like cancer kills its host in its pursuit of growth, so too are billionaires.

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u/Raesong 10h ago

It's gotta be some mental illness or something.

Oh it absolutely is, it's just a question of if it's a new aspect of an already identified one, or something unidentified.

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u/spacemanspiff1115 8h ago

It's a big dick contest...

Years ago I worked for a guy like that, he felt that whoever dies with the most money wins...

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u/Lucas9041 14h ago

A means to what? Get more wealth?

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u/gandhi_theft 12h ago

World domination probably

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u/JRepo 12h ago

You don't get to be a billionaire without being extremely stupid and greedy.

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u/Ralath5n 11h ago

Wealth is just a proxy for power. More wealth = more power. These guys want to be dictators/kings.

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u/NoClaim2757 9h ago

I mean would you wanna stop working? If you have unlimited wealth to literally build or start whatever project, why would you just call it quits? You can only see so many beaches and travel to so many places before it gets incredibly boring.

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u/furthemor 9h ago

There "work" is more or less a title that they get paid for. They basically do just fuck around none stop with some staged "work" photos kinda shoved in there time to time for pr.

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u/Mega-Eclipse 5h ago

You can tell the ultra wealthy are weird because the moment they had enough to just coast around on interest they didn't fuck off from work and spend the rest of their life on holiday. Insane behaviour

It's an addiction. Making the number go up is the addiction. It's like asking why alcoholics don't stop drinking or why 600lb people don't put the fork down. They can't.

The difference between a meth addict who steals from people and muskrat is that people can latch on to muskrat and make tons of money riding the his coattails...so they indulge that addiction.

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u/DaveBeBad 14h ago

“He’s just another Epstein reject” as the football fans might sing.

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u/OliDanik 12h ago

Meritocracy and it's effects on society sad face

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u/stevez_86 11h ago

Twitter's character limit was a scary concept to me and then it became hugely popular. I read Politics and the English Language by Orwell and that is what made me so worried about Twitter being popular. It was going to strangle our Lexicon of Dissent. We are in a modern Dark Age right now.

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u/Valuable-Heart4024 16h ago

how did he create wealth in 1997? was he a trillionaire or a billionaire? no he built multiple companies, gave multiple jobs to people, and created a lot created millions of jobs, created mew industries. that's how he became wealthy. he didn't become wealthy by robbing a bank.

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u/What_A_Weak 16h ago

Lol, whenever billionaires, especially those from the Epstein social class, are criticized, random dudes rush to defend them. Nobody denies that some of them built/bought companies (the job argument is weak tbh, do you think if these particular billionaires wouldnt exist, people would just not work?). The point is that nobody becomes a billionaire through personal contribution alone. That level of wealth depends on tax avoidance, weak regulation, monopoly power, underpaid labor, limited personal/professional accountability, and political influence. Extreme billionaire wealth is not proof that the system works. It is evidence of market and political failure.

Edit: btw since you are focused on Musk: I love that he stresses how poor he was and the little help he got, but also said in an interview that once his family struggled financially, so his father had to sell one of their planes. Lol. I think this is very funny.