Elon Musk Says He Survived On $1 Per Day Before Becoming The Richest Man In the World – 'In America It's Pretty Easy To Keep Yourself Alive'

Bitch, you came from an emerald mine, walkin' the streets with gems in your pockets. Shut the fuck up.
- 🎶 People say he’s crazy
  He’s got emeralds on the soles of his shoes 🎶
  
  ta na na na
- Oh no, I think Elon downvoted you.

I too lived on a dollar or less a day before becoming the lower middle class person I am today. It's easy when your parents buy everything for you and you don't have expenses.
- Came here to say this. It's also remarkably easy to mooch off extended family, friends, even strangers. People usually feed their couch-surfer guests as well, who knew?

The headline should read "Guy routinely talking out of his ass is talking out of his ass".

Grade A delusional thinking.
- Yea but this is grade A in the same way that school lunch ketchup is grade A.

I completely believe that he was making 1$ a day at some point, he's just neglected to talk about the 20 million he had in the bank from daddy.
- or the other thousands of dollars he also ~~made~~ acquired that day
- Probably also ignoring his college dorm, tuition fees, and probably cafeteria fees.
  There is no way you can "buy in bluk" when you have 1 dollar a day, as described in the article. You can barely get one orange per-day. Not to mention, there will be no way to reach a whole-sale store in the U.S., since you cannot afford any transportation, public or private, with 1 dollar.

The headline and article seems to be hugely misleading. According to this article, the $1 was only for food and he did it as a challenge, not out of necessity.
- For how long though? Because I can survive for a week or so on zero dollars a day, by fasting and foraging for dandion greens and citrus fruit from trees in public places. Longer than 2 weeks and my body would start to fail, but Id survive, technically, for a while longer.

Then he doesn't need billions of dollars, right?

Rent: 22¢ (couch split w/ 44 friends) Breakfast: 11¢ (2 eggs) .......... 1¢ (electricity borrowed from neighbor) .......... Free (skillet found in street) Gym membership: Free (lifting rocks) Commute: 4¢ (walking in two used Kleenex boxes for shoes) Lunch: 30¢ (cup filled with ketchup from Wendy's pump) Commute home: 20¢ (walk on hands, use bandaid for blisters) Clothes: 16¢ (Scotch tape for holding together discarded pizza boxes)
Yeah, that checks out.
- Do you think the staff at the Wendy's get annoyed at having to see that poor bastard pump a full cup of ketchup every day.
  Like oh jeez, I hope you filled that thing today. I cannot take a half hour of the slurping noise as Johnny makes the most of his 30¢

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If this is a real writer and not AI generated content (with a fake public profile), it's a college student doing intern work writing articles on topics she is given.
It's clickbait, pure and simple

So it only costs $365 a year to survive in America. Neat.
- Or even better, around 52 bananas!
- If you're willing to exploit nearly everyone you meet for free food and shelter, yes, yes it is.

"I once had to sell an emerald at half it's market value just so I could afford to pay the maid service at my third home" 🙄

Alternative headline suggestion: "Rich liar lies".

Rent is more than a dollar a day. Without a place to code, he never would have been able to work on PayPal. If he slept in his car and worked in an office, gas is still more expensive than a dollar a day unless he moved his car only on the weekends. In short. No he didn't. Someone else footed the bill and he only paid a buck a day for maybe food. Not as tough as doing it on your own, which he's never done.
- Correct, he is lying, aka breathing.

"I saved up all week to buy one banana for $7, and that sustained me the rest of the next week!"
-Elon Musk, clueless asshole
Edit: Fun fact: Elon could read this a dozen times and still not get the joke.
- Here's ten dollars go see a Star war.
- i dont get the joke :[
  
  https://youtu.be/Nl_Qyk9DSUw?si=r-2lOukuL-9i1jDA

I recall that even being rich his "friends" complain he wants to sleep on their couch and eat their food.
- I figured this was how he "survived on $1/day".
  
  xactly. once a parasite always a parasite.
  
  Just like the tiny home show people... There's always a friend or family member with a plot of land for them.
- https://youtu.be/H27rfr59RiE?t=50

As long as you aren't sleeping in your bed when the police get the wrong address, or sleeping in an encampment when the police decide to steal all your belongings for living while poor, or kicked out of the library for not having access to a bathroom, or finding yourself in a grocer, mall, concert hall, theatre, school, etc on a day a shooter decides to show up.
Also you can't survive on $1 per day without someone caring for you. That will not keep you off the streets and fed, and it will most definitely not cover fees for access to self improvement resources or recovery.

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Who is his audience when he tells lies like this? Like, who is agreeing with him? Even beyond how bonkers it is to say out loud, it also doesn’t benefit him to further alienate himself from the world, does it?
- Crazy right wingers who go "Obviously we need to cut welfare so this genius doesn't have to pay taxes! Then one day I will be just as rich as him and be glad I didn't make people as rich as him and future-me pay taxes!"
  
  "That'll show those poor!"
  "Why are you cheering? You're not rich."
  "True, but someday, I might be. And then people like me had better watch their step!"
  
  Right I had forgotten that liars often have other liars’ backs.
- I can only imagine it's rich people who use this argument to try to justify hoarding wealth. After all, minimum wage is $7/hour, so these lazy bums only have to work one hour a week to live and they're still complaining? They can easily save money every week. It's their problem, not the person with billions of dollars.
- This comment is ironic considering that this article is exaggerating what Musk said.
  
  the entire article is a litany of musk’s lies. even if the $1 a day part is a stretch (because it’s in reference to food), the words straight from the horses mouth are blatantly untrue.
  where is the irony? do you believe everything he says in the article?

No. I did that once (as a middle class person too proud to accept daddy's help) and it was fucking awful. I lasted 8 months before I had to consult Bank of Dad, which I'm pretty impressed by, but everything about it sucked. I would steal loaves of bread from bakeries at 4am, as they'd leave them outside to cool. I'd go to late night chippies and make up stories about being on a great adventure for charity so they'd give me free chips, I'd buy my clothes from a market that sold soiled and ripped clothing donated from fast fashion stores, and I'd hand sew them back to acceptability so I could wear them. We'd dumpster dive, forage, and beg, and it still wasn't enough. Rent started going on credit cards, I discovered new addictions I couldn't afford just to cope with the pain of no heating, shitty food, and a general feeling of desperation. And I had a fucking safety net, I was nowhere near the suffering of most people at this kind of poverty line.
Elon is a rich prick. I got a momentary taste of poverty and it was fucking awful. He would have caved in a day.
- Paragraphs, learn them.
  
  Commas, use them.
  
  Who's this "them" that the paragraphs are learning?

“Why don’t you just eat cake?”

I mean, this story is obviously bullshit and has been debunked over the years.
Not to mention even on its face, the headline is just wrong.
Elon states he had an apartment, but also implies he lived in his office, coding 24/7.
So... he had an apartment and is exaggerating about how often he stayed late.
How much did that apartment cost?
???
Did he just walk to work?
Was he working but not earning a wage?
This is a total bullshit article even by its own text.
Maybe his food budget was about a dollar a day for a while. Sure, ok, that's maybe possible.
This is like those stories that were going around a while ago with various corporations just displaying absolutely absurd budgets for how a person could afford to live on their full time minimum low income job...
By assuming rent is 40% lower than it is, that they don't have to pay for car insurance, never have health problems, never need new clothes, barely eat and don't have a phone or internet plan.

What, in 1800?
- What can a banana cost.jpg

He's rapidly headed back to that income level.
- I get that it's nice to imagine, but no, he really fucking isn't, and not just because he never was on that income level, but because he is so obscenely rich, that even if all his current ventures fail spectacularly, he has enough to fall back on a few million times over.
  
  You assume he'd act rationally and invest in even more ridiculous wasted of money...
  He's not smart enough to keep a backup, because even if it's just a million, he'll think he can turn it into a billion.
  As rich as he is, he'll live another 40 years. More than enough time to burn all his money. Don't forget everything is leveraged against each other, his money is built on stock prices, and he's picking a fight with Brazil while using a shit ton of drugs
  If Space X loses it's governments contracts, literally everything would go up in smoke and he'd desperately try to make what he lost back.
  A deat spiral isn't implausible
  
  He's massively leveraged.

Do it again. Now.

I would be very surprised if someone born into wealth like Elon Musk ever dumpster dived for a burger or chicken nugget.

What a fellating fallacious piece of filth that read was. Could they suck him off any harder without ripping his dick off? I submit that they cannot.

Wait, I only donated ten cents a day to an african child, what the hell, suzanne summers?
- Now I've got a young Sally Struthers in my head pimpin' out ThighMaster.
  Odd times.
  
  If it’s the price for Harambe to live, it’s worth it.

$1 a day ignores all the favors he received. How much did that add up to? Most people don’t have that luxury.

What a fucking liar

Anyone can survive on $1 per day (for a month) when their expenses are only due once a month.

Back when rent was $30