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Elon Musk’s Wealth Compared To Everything | Data On Data – Insider News

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I have nothing against Elon Musk, who, on the whole, seems to be a fairly amicable person, but is there a problem with the system? The maga rich don't really do this for the money, they do it for the prestige and because they enjoy it, which wouldn't be any different if the tax system was changed. Elon Musk is currently the second richest person in the world. Between April 2020 and April 2021 Elon Musk made 3m per day on average. We took those numbers and compared them to everything from McDonald's to Kazakhstan in order to put his obscene wealth into context. So to get a better understanding of this graph it really helps to know what this worth actually is. Musk’s wealth is made up mostly of the stocks he owns, the majority of them in Tesla. In fact if you draw a graph of Tesla’s

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I have nothing against Elon Musk, who, on the whole, seems to be a fairly amicable person, but is there a problem with the system? The maga rich don't really do this for the money, they do it for the prestige and because they enjoy it, which wouldn't be any different if the tax system was changed. 


Elon Musk is currently the second richest person in the world. Between April 2020 and April 2021 Elon Musk made $383m per day on average. We took those numbers and compared them to everything from McDonald's to Kazakhstan in order to put his obscene wealth into context. 


So to get a better understanding of this graph it really helps to know what this worth actually is. Musk’s wealth is made up mostly of the stocks he owns, the majority of them in Tesla. In fact if you draw a graph of Tesla’s stock over the top of his wealth you can see it’s almost exactly the same.



Elon Musk's Wealth Compared To Everything | Data On Data - Insider News


Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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