Elon Musk, the controversial owner Tesla, SpaceX and social media platform X (formerly Twitter), is the world's richest man. The South African-born American spent more than $100 million of his $270+ billion fortune in 2024 to try to get Donald Trump returned to the U.S. presidency at the same time he was creating an Austin, Texas, compound to house his collection of ex-wives and children.
How rich is Elon Musk? He's so rich that just stating his net worth in dollars (or the global currency of your choice) lacks context. So Global Business Journalism reporter Alexandre Guery of France visualized the Texas tycoon's net worth in this informational graphic.
As Alex discovered, it would take at least a million years of working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for a middle-class worker in any of the world's leading economies to match Musk's net worth.
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