ProgN said:
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/elon-musk-trillionaire-spacex.html
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Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
With SpaceX
opening on the Nasdaq at $150 a share Friday, his stake in the company is worth more than $766 billion. Combined with his Tesla stake, which is worth $280 billion, Musk's net worth from both companies as of Friday is roughly $1.05 trillion.
The SpaceX IPO added more than $180 billion to Musk's fortune. He's now worth more than the next five richest billionaires in the world combined. His personal net worth is larger than the national GDPs of Taiwan, Ireland or Sweden.
Musk's coronation as the first person in history to be worth $1 trillion is likely to add fuel to the debate over wealth inequality and the rise in power and wealth of America's richest tech founders.
Someone should make an AI video of Bernie Sanders but now have him rail against billionaires and trillionaires.
I've been Thinking about your last comment since Clay & Buck brought it up a few minutes ago (whichever one's on the air today). This is an unfathomable amount of wealth. This post really isn't about policy, it's about understanding truly how much money thi is.
If Elizabeth Warren's 2% wealth tax went into effect, poor Elon would only have $1,029,000,000,000. I keep pointing people to this website:
https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ But I want to try another tact, so I had AI run some numbers for me. I put in my dream life.
Let's play Brewster's Millions. Pretend you're 18 and someone hands you just ONE billion dollars one one-thousandth of Elon money. And I want to spend it lavishly, but not stupidly. . Just everything I could think that me or my hypothetical family could want.
First, i invest it about as cautiously as a human being can 3.5% a year, the kind of safe, boring return that barely outruns inflation. Then I started spending.
Three homes outright ($25 to $30 million. plus a few million to furnish them): a Hill Country estate, a place on Lake Tahoe, a beach house in Florida. A dozen-plus cars ($2.5) across all three. A small plane ($5) to get around Texas. A boat for the lake. A wine cellar, a bourbon collection, golf memberships, the works. Blow out wedding with Harry Connick, Jr (for the wife). Call it all about $50 million, and now I am done with the big stuff.
Three kids private school straight through the most expensive colleges, Disney trips, every ATV and toy they could want, extravagant birthday parties. Annual trips all over the world. You fly the family first class around the world. Aggie Football suite, and any other concert or sporting event. You gamble big enough that the casino sends a personal host and comps the suite. $5 million check to charity every year, for the rest of my life. Insurance. Wife has a million a year.
Add all of that up and you're spending somewhere around $18 to $20 million a year, every year, trying my best to absolute best to enjoy it.
That conservatively-invested billion throws off about $33 million a year in interest. Even after $8 million a year in income taxes, i am still not actively spending the original billion. I'm not even even actively spending the all of the interest. Even after a lifetime of mansions, private jets, monthly parties, three thoroughly spoiled kids, and tens of millions handed to charity I would still die with more than I started. .
And that's ONE billion.
Elon has a THOUSAND of them. A thousand of the exact thing you couldn't reasonably exhaust in a lifetime of dedicated, joyful, creative spending.
Someone on this board is going to say that I am envious of his wealth. It's not envy, its the reality of a world were one many has so much more than he needs that it is almost impossible to fathom.
And that scary 2% wealth tax everyone clutches their pearls over? .The tax wouldn't slow him down enough to notice.
Go to this website. Scroll the whole way to the end. Try to fathom how much money a trillion is if a single pixel is $1,000.
https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/And I didn't even get to the part were DOGE did a great job dismantling all of the regulatory agencies overseeing his companies.
