Elon the trillionaire memes

[jon-nyc]

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would have to earn a dollar a year for a trillion years straight to have that much money.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

In seriousness, people keep saying this happened today, but he’s owned the same amount of SpaceX for a long time. It’s just that it became easier to estimate the value of his stake today. He was a trillionaire last month too.

[Mik]

Yeah, and I get the impression it’s the ideas and the work that motivate him. Money has to have ceased to be of any value other than what he can create with it.

[Andrea B]

In seriousness, Ken White (aka PopeHat) calls for someone to assassinate Musk:

[jon-nyc]

It’s so weird when I see his Bluesky posts. On his legal podcast he’s quite reasonable. Then I see these posts and wonder if it’s the same guy.

In fairness I only see his posts if they’re extreme enough to go viral.

[jon-nyc]

[NobodySock]

He has a team of 100 just to fill those envelopes

[jon-nyc]

1825 - First millionaire in the US (Fur trader John Jacob Astor)
1912 - First billionaire in the US (Oil magnate John D Rockefeller)
2025 or 6 - First trillionaire

[jon-nyc]

Updated.

[Axtremus]

Poor Warren Buffet, not in the Top 10 anymore.

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc

I would have thought Vladimir Putin to be in second place through his personal piratical Empire of state sponsored domestic and imperial plunder.