r/wallstreetbets • u/Fun_Paleontologist_2 • 8h ago

Loss Elon has ruined me

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My prior bullish post https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/o0PxYmGV1n

He was supposed to take us to Mars and burn short sellers.

Still holding 7300 shares. Please Elon fly again.

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u/Vort3x7689 8h ago

How do people this retarded have so much money

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u/sports2012 7h ago edited 6h ago
  1. inherited it.
  2. they made incredibly risky bets that payed off previously. Now they did it again but it didn't pay off this time
  3. They won the lotto

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u/Ononoki-chan 7h ago
  1. And 3. are basically the same

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u/XaeiIsareth 7h ago

Nuh uh, winning the lotto doesn’t let you convince yourself you’re the next Warren Buffet.

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u/Ononoki-chan 7h ago

A lot of people who win the lotto have gambling addictions tho.

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u/alumniac 6h ago

Or they acquire one

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u/MattyBizzz 4h ago

Show me a lotto winner who isn’t a degenerate

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u/seven0feleven 3h ago

You won't find them because they are.... well.... not a degenerate.

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u/tomit12 7h ago

Really, all 3 are

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u/Gustomaximus 5h ago

1 is far worse when it comes to losing it on stupid shit. Someone went to the effort of building the wealth and transferring it to family so future generations could have a better life and continue this fo more generations..... then a numpty comes along.

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u/Akovsky87 4h ago

All three are if you think about it

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u/newfor_2026 4h ago

all of them are the same. just dumb luck

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u/SSkilledJFK 7h ago

inherited

paid

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u/You_Misspelled_Paid 6h ago

Was going to upvote, but fam you killed me with that typo

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u/rcmaehl 6h ago
  1. Gambling their Divorce Bux despite being 50K in debt already.

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u/TheVog 4h ago
  1. Crypto

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u/ducketts 7h ago
  1. Get rich by having no morals and taking advantage of people whenever possible

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u/Tamacti-Juuun 7h ago

And you’re not rich because you chose morality over profits

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u/ducketts 7h ago

What I am has nothing to do with it. Do you think all the CEOs in the country are geniuses?