On the 12th of June 2026, Elon Musk reached a milestone. He became the first person in the world to make it to trillionaire status. Currently, top of the Forbes Billionaires list, that makes him the world’s richest person.
Elon Musk rose significantly in wealth due to a record-high IPO (Initial Public Offering) of SpaceX on the above-mentioned date (not bad for a day’s work!).
SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) is owned by Elon Musk. He has a controlling stake of around 46% of the company.
Not just this record-breaking IPO. There’s the rest of the empire belonging to Elon Musk to consider. For example, Elon Musk also holds a significant portion of shares in his electric vehicle company, Tesla. Musk’s overall wealth is now estimated to be $1.1 trillion.
-I guess there will be more trillionaires to come, as asset values inexorably creep upwards with inflation rearing its ugly head…
What does a trillion dollars look like?
A trillion dollars reads as: $1,000,000,000,000. -That’s one thousand billion.
What does this look like in the real world?
Well, one way of looking at this cash stash is to imagine it as $1 bills stacked upon each other which would come to 67,866 miles. -That’s a stretch long enough to wrap around the Earth’s circumference at the equator by over 2.72 times approximately! (Above photo)
Put another way, imagine being able to see four-and-a-half Olympic-sized swimming pools. Instead of holding water, they were completely filled up with $100 bills. -This would come to $1 trillion dollars; that is, 398,000 cubic feet!
Elon Musk a trillionaire. What of it?
Firstly, let’s get this wealth scenario into some kind of perspective.
Sure, I know that highly successful billionaire businessmen like Elon Musk don’t accumulate their wealth by giving their money away.
However, on the 12th of June, it was said that Musk made a staggering 250 billion dollars alone.
-This amount could be donated to eradicate world-wide poverty, end famine-related deaths such as those from starvation and dysentery for a whole year. It could also be used to educate populations in those areas affected to become long-term self-sufficient…
-And Elon Musk would be just as well-off the day before the 12th of June IPO announcement!
If you had one thousand billion dollars, tell me, how could you not have a profound nagging feeling, thinking to yourself, I got to help people, my fellow brothers and sisters of the world: I’ve got to reach out to “save the world…?” Instead of, how can I make more money? How can I manipulate even more ordinary people in the system to give me more control? How can I avoid paying less taxes? When can I be king of Mars and own all the electric cars there…??! -The list goes on.
Elon Musk, with his sort of money doesn’t buy luxury boats. No, he buys governments.
As with other billionaires, the words ‘making enough money’ don’t exist in their vocabulary. I doubt if it exists in their thought patterns. They don’t think, act or feel like other people. It’s as if they’re a different species to the rest of us. Could their behavior could be accounted for by putting it down to the fact that they have absolutely no empathy?
Commendation or condemnation?
As far as I’m concerned, the announcement of the world’s first trillionaire shouldn’t be met with commendation. It should be met with condemnation: This announcement is absolute proof that things have gone horribly wrong with the world we live in, don’t you think?
-Here’s a few alarming stats to support the claim that things have gone horribly wrong:
*Elon Musk is now wealthier than the combined wealth of the 3.8 billion poorest people in the world.
*These 3.8 billion people make up around 46% of the world’s total population.
*On a broader scale, the dozen richest people in the world currently hold around $2.6 trillion. This total wealth is more than half the wealth of the world’s poorest people (4 billion plus people).
-Let that sink in.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index listing lists these men. For most part, they made their fortune through technology. At the time of this article going out, they include the likes of Larry Page and Serge Brin of Google Alphabet, Jeff Bezos through Amazon, Michael Dell (Dell Technologies), Mark Zuckerberg (META) and Larry Ellison (Oracle).
Finally
Will this man, like other fellow billionaires, ever possess enough humanitarian understanding to see the horror of neglecting all the decent, honorable choices he could make for turning the world into a better place?
While ignoring the gross inequality and suffering, rife throughout the world, will he carry on having a hand in what has been said to be his involvement in:
Aiding and abetting despots for his own gains, wanting to control countries such as the UK, destroying the environment, involvements in the upheaval or overthrow of democracy, secretly funding far-right racists, pretending to be a spreader of free speech but doing the opposite, while having a significant hand in misinformation… The said list goes on.
Will he carry on like this to his dying day?
After his dying day, with the truth known, that he was not the hero figure he had been made out to be: He’s been exposed as a fake, a ‘soft sell’ con artist, for the global cult, and all those that had exposed him with their diligent research had been proven to be right, will his tombstone epitaph read?:
“Here lies a disgusting excuse for a human being.”