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A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money

Published 12 June 2026 · tech

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

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.

But let's try to comprehend it anyway. The most frequently cited comparison is time. If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days.

A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years to reach that point today, you would have needed

to start counting in the P … Read the full story at The Verge.

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