Here’s what you could buy with Elon Musk’s fortune

Elon Musk is the second richest individual on the earth as of Sunday, with a internet value of $171 billion in comparison with Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton founder and CEO Bernard Arnault, who’s value $195 billion.

Musk’s internet value places him within the place to purchase virtually something possible. Maybe that’s why the sky isn’t even the restrict when the multi-billionaire desires of the long run. Afterall, the Tesla CEO has predicted people might colonize Mars, an uninhabitable planet, by as early as 2029.

With the deadline to file taxes shortly approaching on April 18, some could also be questioning what Musk must pay if he had been to liquidate his belongings and head out on a spending spree.

With the brand new Twitter CEO being positioned within the highest tax bracket, Musk might owe the federal government roughly 20% of his value in long-term capital beneficial properties if he had been to liquidate the inventory he owns, particularly contemplating that the majority of his wealth comes from proudly owning shares of Tesla. Which means Musk’s internet value would instantly drop from about $171 billion to $137 billion.

The distinction between a million and one billion is very large. One billion is 1,000 occasions multiple million, but when that doesn’t supply perspective, perhaps the next comparisons will make clear how wealthy Musk actually is.

If somebody had been to make $1 million per 12 months, they’d earn about $480.77 per hour. If an individual had been to herald $1 billion per 12 months, nevertheless, their hourly charge would enhance to $480,769.

For additional perspective, utilizing time as an analogy, a million seconds equates to about 11.5 days, whereas one billion seconds equates to about 31.7 years.

A brand-new Boeing 747-8 jet is valued at $418.4 million. With 137 billion, Musk might buy 328 of those airplanes.

Musk at the moment flies in a Gulfstream G650ER that’s value $70 million.

He beforehand owned 5 homes within the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel-Air.

Regardless of Tesla slashing costs of its automobiles lately, a Mannequin Y variant nonetheless goes for about $50,000. The billionaire might purchase 2.74 million of the automobiles.

Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” bought for $450 million in 2017, based on Tuko. Though just one exists, Musk might purchase about 304,500 work valued at that very same quantity together with his fortune.

Though Musk couldn’t afford to purchase all the highest 50 most precious professional sports activities groups on the earth, which had been valued at a mixed 222.7 billion as of 2022, based on One37, he might purchase the equal of about 17 groups valued at $8 billion — roughly the worth of the Mark Cuban-owned Dallas Mavericks.

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