As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in his poem “Joe Heller”:
True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.
I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    He could have started a peaceful revolution, helping millions of people.

    Instead, he’s knocked up a bunch of women, hates them all (and his children), and spends his days bitching on “Twitter”.

    GOOD JOB

  • Seleni@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 hours ago

    ‘Tell him we will pray for him.’ ‘He needs your prayers.’ ‘Is he, then, an unhappy man?’ Poirot said, ‘So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.’ The nun said softly, ‘Ah, a rich man…’ Poirot said nothing—for he knew there was nothing to say…

  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 hours ago

    This fucker could use his money to actually help people. Everyone would love him. He could be the most popular person in the world. He could be so happy doing good.

  • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works
    67·
    7 hours ago

    This is a man who feels compelled to lie about being good at video games. He’s one of the most pathetic human beings on the face of the planet.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    7·
    4 hours ago

    I get it. All that money, and he still has to pay women to be surrogates to breed his organ donor offspring. They certainly won’t have sex with him under any circumstances, no matter how much money he throws around.

    Not that it matters, because even if he could get a woman to put down her 10 foot pole and consider actual coitus, he couldn’t perform anyway, reportedly due to his wang won’t work due to botched enlargement surgery.

    You just know he is funding cutting edge research into penis transplant surgery in some weird lab somewhere. Watching a lot of porn, probably got his eye on a couple of candidates right now.

    Don’t you feel sorry for him?

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      With a working penis a rich guy like that could certainly buy a lot of temporary happiness, getting BJs from sexy whores and stuff. But since he says he can’t we can assume he doesn’t have one.

  • BigDiction@lemmy.world
    10·
    5 hours ago

    All the money in the world and he just had to go fucking around in politics and then our government.

    I swear people like this just do not have good real friends in their life to ground them.

    • Maeve@kbin.earthOP
      5·
      5 hours ago

      That’s Trump’s problem. And Biden, Clinton, Bush (1&2), Obama, Reagan Nixon… All the way back. For the elderly, I would argue elder abuse, additionally.

  • mrmisses@lemmy.world
    38·
    7 hours ago

    Yeah we know. We saw the letter rejecting his request to rape girls on Epstein Island. Maybe if he had more money? Guess we’ll never know. Poor fella

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      6·
      4 hours ago

      Dear Elon:

      I must decline your many requests, and stress that I would like you to stop contacting me. Since you have been so relentless, I will be extremely candid with you: You look like a Goblin, on a good day, and the very thought of you naked is horrifying. You will terrify the girls, who are, after all, only little kids. It’s hard enough to get them to cooperate with having sex with fat old men without having you stalking around the room like a naked obese Gollum with a bad haircut.

      It’s a NO, and it will always be a NO. Please stop contacting me.

      JE

  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world
    28·
    7 hours ago

    You know, that money isn’t making Elon happy, but it could make quite a few a people currently in credit card debt quite happy…

      • SaltSong@startrek.websiteEnglish
        8·
        6 hours ago

        If my credit card debt vanished, it would measurably improve the quality of the rest of my life. I’m not gonna just pile the debt back up, and not having to make the payments would free up money I could save for retirement or emergency.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    17·
    7 hours ago

    We’re humans, social creatures. A lot of happiness we experience comes from human connection

    There is nothing more isolating than climbing to the top on a pile of everyone you ever knew.

    Money in significant quantity brings isolation