A Trillion Dollars

[00:00:00]As Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire. Here's Steve to crunch some numbers.

[00:00:10]The world's first trillionaire. I suppose that's just inflation, isn't it?

[00:00:14]Really? What is a trillion? Is it It's like 10,000 billions. A thousand billions. Is that all? And that's in dollars.

[00:00:25]Uh a million millions. That's what a billion is. million times a million dollars. Now, that does sound ridiculous. Um, I think Musk made at least $250 billion on Friday or $250,000 million. It does sound better when you do it like that, doesn't it? $250,000 million. It's not a bad day at the office. That's quite a good line there.

[00:00:49]I I looked it up, right? It's enough money to completely eradicate extreme poverty worldwide for a year. But but but if he gave away $250,000 million today, he'd still be as rich as he was on Friday morning. And I know you don't become a trillionaire by giving your money away, but you know I mean to imagine having billions and billions of pounds and waking up every single morning and not thinking right, how can I help? You know, how could you not look at your bank balance and think, I'm going to try and save the world today. I I'm going to buy a couple of really nice houses and a Lamborghini and a pointless yacht and then I'm going to try and cure cancer and save the lesser spotted leopard from extinction while I'm at it.

[00:01:31]How could you not do that? Not how can I make more money? Not how can I change the system in my favor? Not how can I persuade poor people that me paying tax is bad for the economy. Not how much rage baiting can I fit in today? How much can I piss off the libtarts today?

[00:01:51]Or how how can I sell more aluminium trash panzas? What's wrong with him? Are are you joking? 10 years ago, Elon Musk was bragging about how we'd all have electric cars on Mars. 10 years later, he's bragging about how you can create your own AI child pornography on Grock, whilst openly promoting far-right parties across Europe, including the AFD, which is as near Germany as got to the Nazis since, well, the Nazis. The guy pays Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

[00:02:20]He speaks at his rallies. Last year, Musk was suggesting that America should liberate the Brits from our tyrannical government, suggesting the king should recall parliament. the richest man in the world, calling on an unelected monarch to mount a coup d'etatar. He is objectively one of the world's most prominent spreaders of misinformation, false narratives, conspiracy theories, and outright lies, deliberately stoking civil unrest, like the time he tweeted a picture of migrants storming a hospital in Birmingham and it turned out to be a still from one of the Batman movies.

[00:02:55]Does being the richest person in the world make you the world's biggest Or does being the world's biggest make you the world's richest man? Musk's wealth now exceeds that of the poorest 3.8 billion people in the world combined. That's 46% of the global population. Right? I'm not a a religious man, but when I look at Elon Musk, I hope there is a heaven and a hell. that I wonder if one day he'll realize that no bank balance, no matter how impressive, can guarantee you a place in heaven if you believe in it or indeed shield you from everlasting nothingness if you don't. If we're lucky enough to live long enough, we are all destined to look back on our lives and be filled with a mixture of regret and gratefulness. I wonder as death draws near many years from now if Musk possesses enough humanity to recognize the true horror of the consequences of every decent choice he could have made but didn't. and whether he is capable of feeling the crippling regret that he chose instead to allow his wealth to enable despots, to amplify lies, to pay farright racists, to call for the overthrow of democratically elected governments, to aid the destruction of our natural world, and to cause unspeakable inequality and suffering to those he could and should have helped.

[00:04:17]on his deathbed. I am willing to bet all my money against all of his that Musk's god complex will suddenly evaporate. And all the voices that once hollered that Musk is the man, the man who tells it how it is. The self-made man who changed the world for the better, all those voices will fall silent. And the only voice left will be the sound of history itself scribbling into its notebook.

[00:04:42]Here lies the worst human being that ever existed.

[00:04:46]Hats off to him though. It's quite an achievement.

[00:04:51]>> Thanks, Steve. Well, not a bad day's work at the office, is it? Um, he was