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Please remember that a trillion sounds a lot, but it's only 1000 billion. Also a billion is only a thousand million. So it's not really that big a deal. It's basically equivalent to zero when you think of all the money and valuable minerals in the whole Universe.
It seems bad someone paying themselves a trillion dollars out of their own company, but wait until you've run a business before you judge. I once bought myself a Kindle out of money from our podcast company. In a way it was legitimate expense as I have to read books for my podcast. But mainly I was thinking - nice, free Kindle. I could have used that money to make another podcast or bought some actual books, but I selfishly took the money to pay for something for me. And I hardly ever use it and don't know where it is right now.
So before you judge Elon for the splinter in his eye, look at the 2 by 4 lodged in your own optic nerve. None of us are perfect.
If your work said "We've decided to pay you a trillion dollars this week, on top of your regular pay packet," would you really turn it down? Would you say, "Oh no, that's an obscene amount of money for one person to have, I can't possibly take it"?
Nope you're take the trillion, say you'd earned it and maybe buy a couple of Big Issues to show you were a nice person who was sharing the wealth.
You have to think about your own future.
Elon Musk might use that money to help poor children or bring about peace and harmony in society by uniting all people regardless of race, religion, sexuality or gender.
You might say that's unlikely given his track record, but I say, don't judge people by the things they say and do and tweet, judge them by the things they might do if visited by three very scary ghosts.
You might say I can't think of a worse person to give one trillion dollars to, but I would say, "What about a baby, who would just dribble all over it and probably put it in a bin? Or Jeffrey Dahmer the Milwaukee Cannibal who would use it to raise himself from the dead and then free himself from prison and then set up an island where he fucks, kills and eats people?
Luckily the kind of people who end up with enormous wealth hardly ever use it to set up a sex and murder island. It's usually just one of the other.
And again from anyone saying that one trillion is too much to give to one person and it's fucking nuts that a room full of people who aren't that person would cheer like they'd won the superbowl when they'd handed them the cash, but I would remind you that $1 trillion is actually just £760 billion. And a billion is just a thousand million. And they've given it to someone who is probably not even in the 250 worst people in the world you could give it to.
Also he'll be making sex robots, so shut the fuck up and let him get on with his job.
