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You've walked $200 billion on foot. Now take your hands off the wheel — full self-driving, at last. Musk's been promising it for actual Teslas since 2016; the robotaxis never came. This one works.
What it could do
You slogged past $1.32 trillion. Here's what a fraction of it could do.
When the SpaceX IPO made Elon Musk the first trillionaire, Billie Eilish — net worth about $50 million, a rounding error beside him — suggested he spend it on people instead. Here's the math on the things she named, and a few more.
~3%≈ $40 billion / year
End world hunger.
The UN's estimate to end global hunger runs around $40 billion a year — roughly three cents on Musk's dollar. It was the first thing Eilish told him to fund.
3% of $1.32T · UN/WFP estimate
~17%≈ $220 billion
Erase every dollar of medical debt in America.
The roughly $220 billion owed by about 100 million Americans — gone for one-sixth of the fortune.
17% of $1.32T · KFF, 2024
~10%≈ $131 billion
Mail a $1,000 check to every U.S. household.
All 131 million of them, with $1.19 trillion still left over.
10% of $1.32T · approximate
At $1.32 trillion, Musk is worth more than Buffett, Gates, and Bezos combined — more than every other carmaker on Earth put together — and, per Oxfam, more than the entire wealth of the poorest 46% of humanity: 3.8 billion people. His whole fortune still wouldn't quite cover what Americans owe in student loans ($1.6 trillion). When Billie Eilish suggested he fund world hunger instead, he called her “not the sharpest tool in the shed.”