Did the total of fines the US gov't was looking to levy on Musk total up to more than the $44Billion he spent on Twitter?

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robofanatic an hour ago | parent | next [-]

$44B is peanuts for a soon to be trillionaire

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dylan604 an hour ago | parent [-]

Doesn't make it a good deal. Just means he can afford to make bad deals.

	▲	dlev_pika 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This is part of what people miss about poverty - it’s incredibly unforgiving. By contrast, the more money you have the more mistakes you can afford to make

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exe34 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When you are the richest man in the world, you can afford to do things out of spite. But we won't know - he got rid of the people who could have fined him.

	▲	dylan604 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It just seems highly unlikely the USG would issue a >$44Billion dollar set of fines to anybody.