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With a trillion-dollar net worth, Elon Musk is the world’s wealthiest person. But how much even is a trillion dollars? Try your best to dilapidate that fortune with our tool, developed in partnership with Neal.fun👇

Let’s start with your morning coffee. 16,000 cups (almost 44 years’ worth of caffeine) would afford you slightly more than a median house down payment ($80,000)—but would leave Musk with a 12-figure fortune. www.wired.com/story/spend-...

In fact, you could buy a personal army (with double the tanks of the US military) and oil rigs to power it and you would still be left with hundreds of millions. www.wired.com/story/spend-...

And the tool doesn’t account for Musk’s political operations. As of October 6, the main Musk-affiliated super PAC had deployed $21 million into seven key US Senate contests. You can add that to the total.

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