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Should We Be Surprised That The Man with More Money Than God Has a godlike Complex?
And will the wealthiest man on earth be constrained by the loss of 200 billion dollars in his quest for complete dominance over mankind?
Not even God could handle a setback this huge.
I don’t imagine our creator losing a quarter of heaven’s GDP without the devil taking a dim view or even worse — being condemned to a place where there’s weeping and gnashing of teeth.
But Elon has lost a titanic sum and yet lived to tell the story.
It is extraordinary, isn’t it?
What this episode shows us is that it is eminently possible to acquire more money than God in our time. Even more importantly it gives us a glimpse into the mindset of the man himself.
We must appreciate this was a 200 hundred billion gamble which was lost by Elon; had the gamble paid off, we would be talking about the wealthiest man that the world has ever seen since Mansa Musa.
To the uninitiated, Mansa Musa was a Black man from modern day Mali who was worth nearly 400 billion dollars.
Like Musk, Mansa Musa was keen to show the world the true extent of his wealth and this was done by undertaking a pilgrimage to Mecca.