Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
Yeah, he's getting rich off the EV vehicles that our resident conservatives say are a liberal fantasy.
Good for him....and good for all the liberals that own his stock.
You know what he's not getting rich off of? Twitter. Bummer, huh?
What Boiler couldn't grasp is a concept that generally flies over the heads of the tiny-brained folk. You see countless headlines about how some individual or company "lost" or "made" XXX gajillion dollars because the price of some stock they own went down or up. Of course, no unrealized gain or loss means anything, as in, you don't gain or lose anything unless and until you sell it. And is Elon going to dump his Tesla stock? No. So in reality, he's no wealthier. He owns whatever percentage of Tesla he owned yesterday.
It's sort of like rejoicing because your wedding ring will now sell for ten times what you paid for it. So what? (I know: divorce!)
The distinction between wealth and securities is the same as the distinction between money and currency--far, far over the heads of people like Boiler.