Elon Musk — who has $260 billion — will be charging Helene victims $400 for internet service

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    1. The more I read about this man, the more I wish his family had driven into Soweto in the early 1970s and got a flat tire.

    2. Bad enough he’s such an insufferable dick, but that he *enjoys* being such an insufferable dick is what makes him so intolerable.

    3. I’m all for bashing on Elon, but I don’t think his riches means he’s obligated to indefinitely give stuff away for free out of the goodness of his heart.

    4. CommunicationHot7822 on

      Much like when he claimed he donated Starlink to Ukraine yet it was being paid for by the government.

    5. Wow… He’s really broke after his Twitter became a shitter?

      I mean, he’s already siphoning Putin’s cash, right?

    6. No wonder he’s trying to get into Trump’s pants. He can con customers via government contracts. Join the Trump family in their sacking of the government coffers. Shitstain fuck boys

    7. Holiday_Horse3100 on

      This is a man that trump wants to put in charge of a government agency if elected.

    8. Thomisawesome on

      Isn’t he backing the same people who were complaining the government was only handing out $750 to victims?

    9. ThinkTelevision8971 on

      So after crying about the $750, he’s going charge more than half of that?

      These fear mongers couldn’t help but grift

    10. If Americans can kill a bunch of school children, they can surely deal with this insufferable douche.

    11. I for one support this. Piss off voters while making them associate you with the guy you want in office.

    12. raging_pastafarian on

      Elon is a total dipshit, but let’s not be disingenuous with the posts here, and try to actually tell the truth.

      Elon is offering a “free 30 days of internet” promotion via Starlink.

      The problem is, you have to pay $400 for the dish and equipment. AND it will not arrive nearly in time to be useful for disaster assistance. AND I’m pretty sure that free 30 days is a standard promotion that is being offered to pretty much everyone anyway.

      So what is really happening here is Elon is taking advantage of a natural disaster to try to sell Starlink services, and is not actually doing anything charitable at all, while pretending he is.

      Aka, Elon is definitely a dipshit, and you don’t even have to make up lies for that to still be true.

    13. Imagine the amount of good you could do with even a fraction of $260 Billion. Then imagine having the ability to do all that good and not only doing nothing but doing the opposite. Human garbage.

    14. Ah, the MAGA goal of, “socialize the cost, and privatize the profits” grift. Who saw that coming?..

    15. I think this guy was always an asshole but just had some altruistic brain matter. The ketamine really focused it’s neuron blaster at the altruistic part.

    16. I mean, he didn’t become a multi billionaire by not exploiting desperate people…

    17. He also charges starlink users in ukraine dramatically more than US users. He gives them “priority” service for $600/mo instead of regular service at $120/mo. The satellites are there anyways, and when they are so low they aren’t in competition with other nations they are just serving ukraine, so having high priority along with everyone else is exactly the same as having low priority along with everyone else.

    18. Well, yea.

      That’s part of the reason he has $260b

      Being a billionaire is a personality disorder. Impossible to achieve without taking advantage of employees and customers.

      If he was the type of person to provide vital services to people in need without overcharging them, he’d never have become obscenely wealthy in the first place.

    19. Liberty_Bell_End on

      “Someone grease my chest angles and squeeze me into this t-shirt. I gotta go look cool. I think I’m gonna go with the “infant just shat it’s diaper” expression. That’ll cap the whole ensemble.”

    20. commitpushdrink on

      Elon has provided a ton of free terminals to western NC, which usually go for $399. He’s also throwing in a month for free on top of these terminals.

      Businesses must charge for their products and services or else they can’t pay their employees.

      When someone is 1-23 from the field and 8-8 from the foul line the best thing you can do is let them shoot.

      This is his 1, trying to bad guy him on this is fucking stupid.

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