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I read something fascinating about how Elon Musk accumulates his fortune. Honestly, when you look at the numbers, it's dizzying.
So here it is, in 2024, his wealth had reached 429 billion dollars, making him the richest person on the planet. But what really interests me is the speed at which this wealth is accumulating. His salary per second, to put it simply, is about 3,708 dollars. Yes, you read that right. In just one second.
To put that into perspective, it's more than a month's salary for most people. And if we go a step further, we're talking about 222,500 dollars per minute. That's already the price of a nice house in many countries.
But wait, it gets even crazier by the hour. Musk earns about 13.35 million dollars per hour. With that, he could buy a private jet in less than two hours. And over an entire day, we're talking about 320.5 million dollars. That's the annual budget of some small countries.
In a week, you can add 2.24 billion dollars. It's crazy. What he accumulates in seven days is what others take centuries to save.
All of this is thanks to Tesla's solid performance, of course, but also to his ambitious future projects in artificial intelligence and space exploration. SpaceX and xAI continue to grow, and that directly reflects in his fortune.
Honestly, when you see how Elon Musk accumulates his wealth at this breakneck pace, it makes you think about the extent of wealth concentration in our era.