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    I’m gonna do a morris dance for more losses. Let’s bankrupt them all before the summer solstice.

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    Almost 50% of a company’s worth gone in 2 months. Tesla really is leading the race.

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      Now that you mention it this infographic would look right at home in any dystopia movie.

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    Ahw yes. Bleed those fuckers dry.

    I fear this will only be temporary. I really hope this trend continues.

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    Data is ugly: this does not contextualize gains made in the tail end of the election and upto the inauguration. This miscommunicates the harm done to them. The economical harm must grow.

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      Basically there was a completely un justified bubble in the past few months, driving it up to double what it was worth for years.

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        Tesla was always an unjustified bubble. Even after these losses it has a market cap of ~800B compared to Toyota at 295B. Despite Toyota selling 10.8 million vehicles to Teslas 1.8 million last year. Assuming similar profit per vehicle tesla should be worth ~50B, assuming 3 times the profit, tesla should still max out at ~150B. There’s a long way to drop yet.

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    The world does not need (should not have) billionaires. When you have a couple of millions, it’s enough to last you a lifetime.

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      Like, you get a golden crown in exchange for the extra wealth, like, congratulations like, good job, like, amazing.

      Now go retire on an island of something.

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      In which fairy tale world do you live that a couple of millions is enough to last a lifetime? Can’t even buy a house here with a couple of mil… And then you’re forgetting about the inflation. A couple of mil is nothing.

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        Housing markets are over inflated because billionaires are the ones buying up and driving up prices.

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        Can someone do the math if 2 million is enough to live comfortably? (per adult in the family)

        In most places you can buy a house for half a mil, and just put the trest in stocks and pull a monthly salary

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          Depends very much on where you live and what counts as comfortable. In Canada one mil basically buys you a crackshack in Vancouver or a older four bedroom out in the country. Retiring with an additional mil in the bank might not be super “comfortable” as in going on regular vacations, affording property taxes and so on…

          But yeah, most places aren’t like that.

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            Yea housing in Canada sounds pretty fucked. I live in Amsterdam we have a housing crisis but half a mil can get you a decent place.

            If you put the other 1.5mil in investments and pull 50k per year out as a salary with no mortgage to pay you can probably live quire comfortably for 40 years. (no crazy vacations and stuff)

            Amsterdam is also one of the most expensive cities in the world, so I think with 2mil you’ll live comfortably in most places in the world

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          There’s a rule of 4%, meaning that you should not withdraw more than 4% of your investments per year to keep the ball rolling. To cover the US average salary you have to have $1.65m invested. Good luck finding a house for $450k and living without medical insurance.

          If you want to have insurance, then your 4% minimum rises up to $1.875m. And I really don’t think you can buy any house for $125k…

          The problem with people who think that $1-2m is enough is that they were born in the 1980-s or something when $1m was a lot of money. But inflation is a thing and that money is not enough anymore. If you ask me, $10m is a bare minimum today to be set for life and not to worry about finances ever.

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            If you’re withdrawing the average US salary, that would also cover mortgage payments, so you could put the entire 450k down on a more expensive house and still live comfortably. Most people making average salary don’t own their house outright and pay nothing for housing. So yeah, by your calculations 2m is more than enough.

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            Good luck finding a house for $450k and living without medical insurance.

            I have to say, thats still a large swath of the US. Also depending on the interest rate, it could be better to have the mortgage rather than bought outright.

            I also know a few folks who do just enough work to get medical insurance, and they really enjoy it that way. They have enough from their investments, and the ~30hr/wk they work is enough to get medical, dental, and vision. One works a horse stable, another worked at Starbucks for a while (when it still seemed like a decent company). At that point, there was enough return from investments that she started her own coffee shop (and brought in a couple other employees from Starbucks she really liked working with).

            $2 million is still plenty for most people.

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            Max $450k, 4br, 2ba, sorted by price high to low.

            You can get more for less depending on location, but there you go.

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            It really really depends on your standard of living too. This number will be different for everyone. Some would be happy with 125k house, it’s small and nothing fancy, but the 5 bedroom 2 car garage house, not for everyone.

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              There are a lot of ifs, sure. That’s another reason why a blank statement that $2m is enough is plain wrong.

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    8 hours ago

    trump is secretly a socialist trying to redistribute wealth! :O

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      How is he redistributing wealth exactly? I’ll tell you how: all the poors will panic sell their shares now (you can see loads of comments to sell on Lemmy), the rich will bulk buy them at discount, wait for a few years and will cash out record high dividends increasing the wealth gap much further.

      The economical ignorance of a typical Lemmy user is just mind blowing… I mean, do you people have any school level education at least?

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          This way of thinking is sadly not. Look at other comments, lemmings think that these billionaires have lost something, lol. They don’t realise that wealth is not money and literally nothing has changed in the lives of Zuck and Musk.

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              Henry Ford was also bothered when he got sued for anti-Semitism, yet he walked away still rich and his company still dominates US car market. I mean, the longer you live in a delusion the poorer you’ll end up. You do you, I’m just trying to warn you.

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    7 hours ago

    Losing all the money they made during Obama & Biden administration.