Would you want to be as rich and famous as Elon Musk if it meant you had to travel everywhere with 20 bodyguards?

[BrianNole777]

Yikes. He spends a couple million dollars a year on his security detail due to threats.

I think I'd rather be me...an anonymous nobody who drives around in a white Toyota Corolla. 😆

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/technology/elon-musk-security.html#:~:text=Musk%2C%20who%20was%20once%20flanked,a%20room%20before%20he%20enters.

 

[GOHOX69]

Gaddafy duck body guards

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

Yikes. He spends a couple million dollars a year on his security detail due to threats.

I think I'd rather be me...an anonymous nobody who drives around in a white Toyota Corolla. 😆

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/technology/elon-musk-security.html#:~:text=Musk%2C%20who%20was%20once%20flanked,a%20room%20before%20he%20enters.

Not that I endorse death threats or violence but this problem is a problem of Musk's own creation by being a douchebag.

While I imagine a billionaire would still need some protection, if he just focused on his businesses and was less controversial it likely wouldn't be nearly as bad.

 

[Mayland]

Yikes. He spends a couple million dollars a year on his security detail due to threats.

I think I'd rather be me...an anonymous nobody who drives around in a white Toyota Corolla. 😆

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/technology/elon-musk-security.html#:~:text=Musk%2C%20who%20was%20once%20flanked,a%20room%20before%20he%20enters.

I think it would be awful. I’m guessing everybody with that kind of wealth has that level of security detail. But it probably also feeds into their narcissism.

 

[BrianNole777]

I think kit would be awful. I’m guessing everybody with that kind of wealth has that level of security detail. But it probably also feeds into their narcissism.

I read that Warren Buffett only had one bodyguard for many years.

That seems better/easier.

 

[Mayland]

Not that I endorse death threats or violence but this problem is a problem of Musk's own creation by being a douchebag.

While I imagine a billionaire would still need some protection, if he just focused on his businesses and was less controversial it likely wouldn't be nearly as bad.

I disagree. Could you have told me the United Healthcare’s CEO’s name before he was murdered? Elon might be a little more of a target because of his fame, but like I said previously everybody with that level of wealth has a target on their back.

 

[BrianNole777]

Not that I endorse death threats or violence but this problem is a problem of Musk's own creation by being a douchebag.

While I imagine a billionaire would still need some protection, if he just focused on his businesses and was less controversial it likely wouldn't be nearly as bad.

Exactly. He's inserted himself into very controversial politics.

He should dedicate all his free time to philanthropy instead and he wouldn't need 20 bodyguards, IMHO.

 

[uihawk82]

I read that Warren Buffett only had one bodyguard for many years.

That seems better/easier.

Buffett seems to be a nice person and hasnt he given away a lot of his money?

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

I read that Warren Buffett only had one bodyguard for many years.

That seems better/easier.

That's what I'm saying. If you arn't controversial you don't get the death threats and level of concerns as Musk has gotten.

Although I would say the level of wealth that is probably ideal is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. You want to be rich but not so rich that everyone knows who you are.

 

[Bonerfarts]

Elon is miserable because Elon‘s life is a miserable. He proves the old truism that money doesn’t buy happiness.

 

[uihawk82]

Yikes. He spends a couple million dollars a year on his security detail due to threats.

I think I'd rather be me...an anonymous nobody who drives around in a white Toyota Corolla. 😆

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/technology/elon-musk-security.html#:~:text=Musk%2C%20who%20was%20once%20flanked,a%20room%20before%20he%20enters.

Musk is just greedy and narcissitic who enjoys to hear himself talk and wants applause.

If I had his 400 billion I would be giving some away but more importantly trying to help the poor and unfortunate. Geez who was it that tried to help the poor, definitely not the likes of trump and these billionaires

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

I think 15-20 million is the sweet spot.

Fly under the radar but enough to do pretty much whatever you want. Sure, you won’t own a sports team or a megayacht or your own Hawaiian island, but you can live in comfort and with anonymity.

 

[Mister_Man]

He is probably more worried about being kidnapped by one of his crazy fanboys than someone who dislikes him.

 

[mnole03]

I think 15-20 million is the sweet spot.

Fly under the radar but enough to do pretty much whatever you want. Sure, you won’t own a sports team or a megayacht or your own Hawaiian island, but you can live in comfort and with anonymity.

You can have hundreds of millions in relative anonymity. There are plenty of people who do.

 

[desihawk]

i honestly think most middle to upper class americans live far better and more enjoyable lives than most ultra rich and ultra powerful people

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

The only reason to have billions would be to buy the Blues, sign a top line wing and top 4 defenseman, cut Sunny, and play some decent hockey again.
@JWolf74

 

[mnole03]

The only reason to have billions would be to buy the Blues, sign a top line wing and top 4 defenseman, cut Sunny, and play some decent hockey again.
@JWolf74

Jeremiah Smith would be in Tallahassee right now. Along with Kyle Kennard and every dude that would otherwise go on the second day of the draft.

 

[IAFB2021Champs]

Exactly. He's inserted himself into very controversial politics.

He should dedicate all his free time to philanthropy instead and he wouldn't need 20 bodyguards, IMHO.

But I’m sure you’d still have some person pissed off enough that they didn’t get some sort of donation from him and want him dead.
Greed is a major problem.

 

[stanzithemanzi12]

Yikes. He spends a couple million dollars a year on his security detail due to threats.

I think I'd rather be me...an anonymous nobody who drives around in a white Toyota Corolla. 😆

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/technology/elon-musk-security.html#:~:text=Musk%2C%20who%20was%20once%20flanked,a%20room%20before%20he%20enters.

He makes a couple million in a few hours so....

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

Yes.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

Why wouldn't every rich person like that just live like Hugh Heffner? I don't get it.

Of course, when I was 14 I said, "Why wouldn't every male adult just spend their entire time in nudie bars?" And I don't do that. I give Tuesdays to my family...and Thursdays to my other family.