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Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 4, 2025, 01:12 PM

3 hrs ago

If one could go back to the end of the last Ice Age, and save $10,000 every day, eighty-two thousand years later one would STILL only have 60% as much money as Musk.

And some people still don't think he should pay taxes.

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