A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money

The Verge
By Jess WeatherbedJun 12, 2026, 12:26 pm83 ptsTrending
Elon Musk is now officially the world's first trillionaire. That is a colossal amount of wealth (and by proxy, power) for one individual to have. Its scale - a thousand times more than a billion - is difficult to fathom for those of us who aren't among the 3,363 billionaires that currently exist in our world.…

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