'Billionaire Elon Musk Lives "Below The Poverty Line" Because He "Wouldn't Even Get A New Mattress"'

[Demovictory9]

Grimes Is Being Called Out For Her “Beyond Offensive” Comments That Billionaire Elon Musk Lives “Below The Poverty Line” Because He “Wouldn’t Even Get A New Mattress”

Speaking with Vanity Fair this week, Elon’s partner Grimes — who shares two children with him — addressed assumptions that the business and tech mogul lives a lavish lifestyle as a billionaire.

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But, as the musical artist went on to detail Elon’s spending habits more closely, she argued that he “lives at times below the poverty line” — a comment that has been met with fierce criticism online.


“But at the same time… Like, bro wouldn’t even get a new mattress,” she said, detailing a time that Elon had suggested they replace his mattress with one of hers when there was a hole in it.

She said, “Bro does not live like a billionaire. Bro lives at times below the poverty line. To the point where I was like, can we not live in a very insecure $40,000 house? Where the neighbors, like, film us, and there’s no security, and I’m eating peanut butter for eight days in a row?”

Shortly after the interview went live, fans took to Twitter to call Grimes out for her “beyond offensive” comments. Firstly, many users pointed out that living a more frugal lifestyle is in no way synonymous with living below the poverty line, which — according to governmental standards — is the official indicator of being “classified as poor.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leylamohammed/grimes-elon-musk-below-poverty-line-intense-backlash

Link to tweet

[Skittles]

2. thank you

WORRY, CONSTANT STRESS, ISSUES SLEEPING, for example, are all part of poverty

[Skittles]

4. whassup!

been booting systems all night for time change......it irks me when people complain about that one freaking hour!

[brush]

5. I don't care what anybody says. The cheap bastard...

should get a new mattress. He can spend multi-millions to send a Tesla into space with his Space X rocket but can buy a mattress.

WTF?

[moose65]

17. He can't run for President

Not in the United States anyway. He was born in South Africa.

[Solly Mack]

8. That's some special kind of rarefied stupid she's exhaling.

Must be from all that privilege she inhales.

And much like oxygen, she can't even see it.

[alphafemale]

9. Obsessive frugality is not the same as poverty

A possible sign of mental illness like Howard Hughes, maybe.

And doesn't she have the ability to fetch some food into the house?

She expected to be a pampered princess with hand maidens by being with a billionaire with his own rockets?

[GoCubsGo]

10. Those two deserve each other.

Yikes. I feel bad for their children.

[Wingus Dingus]

11. Well, today I learned there's someone named "Grimes" who

calls her boyfriend, who is Elon Musk, "bro". I am getting old and the world is whizzing past me.

[Celerity]

14. her first hit was 10 years ago

dream electro pop

her 2015 LP Art Angels was number 1 on the Alt Charts in the US

she is Canadian

March 17, 1988 (age 33)
Vancouver, British Columbia

Grimes - Genesis (2012)

Grimes is dating leaker Chelsea Manning after Elon Musk breakup

https://pagesix.com/2022/03/11/grimes-dating-leaker-chelsea-manning-after-elon-musk-breakup/

[Wingus Dingus]

16. Never heard of her until this post.

Oh well, not my kind of music anyway.

[Celerity]

20. yes, this board is not exactly a big pool of alt electro pop fans, lol (I am one)

it is deffo age related

out of 350 people who responded, there are only 2 under 30 year olds (I am 25)

and only 12 more under 40


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216442990

[Wingus Dingus]

21. I saw that, we skew pretty old! Although my kids are in their mid-20's,

and I like to think they help me keep up to date--I still miss a lot of things, culturally.

[2naSalit]

12. She and her beau...

Can't go fuck off and disappear.

[ibegurpard]

13. New mattresses aren't cheap

They may as well be a million dollars for a lot of people.

[onethatcares]

15. when things get rought

maybe they could move in with the Kardashians and get some advice from Kim as to how to make it in the world.

[48656c6c6f20]

18. He lives so frugally he couldn't even pay for an alphabet

To give his kids real names.

[LisaL]

22. He sounds pathologically frugal.

That doesn't make him poor.

"Unlike those who are simply thrifty, chronic underspenders pass up purchases not because they enjoy saving money or making practical sacrifices to reach a larger goal -- but because it physically pains them to part with cash. Their income makes no difference."

https://www.today.com/news/when-being-cheap-becomes-obsession-wbna42276725

[bullwinkle428]

24. And I'll personally admit to those tendencies myself. I sleep on a mattress

that's nearly 30 years old, but quite honestly, it's still in incredible shape, even through several moves. I wear certain items of clothing that are borderline embarrassing in their condition. I rarely take vacations, in the sense of spending a week or more at some faraway location. I drive a very fuel-efficient, economical vehicle.

Financially, though, I would consider myself very fortunate compared to so many others out there. I'm just kind of allergic to the idea of spending money on myself if something is not completely essential. Any suggestion, however, that I'm somehow "living in the vicinity of the poverty line" is not only laughable, it's borderline offensive.

[Demovictory9]

25. Thr mattress is not in good shape..you just dont notice the slow progression

Of the mattress losing its firmness. Mine is 10 years old..planning for the new one.

A good mattress is life changing

[jcgoldie]

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