Investidoresna, of SpaceX, which begins to have shares traded on the stock exchange from this Friday (12). The expectation is that Elon Musk, owner of the company, gains assets valued at US$1.77 trillionbecoming the .
With this expectation of fortune, he will be richer than the poorest 46% of the world’s population — or 3.8 billion people — added together. This is what an analysis by the NGO Oxfam indicates.
To gain a greater understanding of the size of Musk’s assets, If he spent US$1 million a day (currently R$5.08 million), it would take 2.74 thousand years to make his fortune.
The trillionaire could also give US$100 (R$500) to each of the 8.2 billion people on the planet and still would remain among the ten richest billionaires in the worldwith more than US$184 billion (R$935.1 billion) remaining.
A 10% tax on Musk’s $1 trillion fortune could eradicate global extreme poverty for a yearlifting more than 800 million people from the extreme poverty line.
Furthermore, it alone holds more wealth than countries like Norway, Portugal and Irelandfor example.
equivalent to an average of more than US$1 million per minute.
The big problem is not just the inequality of having a single person with the wealth of almost half the population. The fortune also guarantees Musk greater political and commercial power, in other words, the ability to control the global narrative.
