Americans Are Losing Their Minds After Learning That Elon Musk Will Make More In A Year Than Every Single US Grade School Teacher Combined
Sometimes it’s hard to truly understand how much money billionaires make. The numbers are so large that they become somehow incomprehensible.
And to add salt to our non-billionaire wounds, they just getting richer! For example, Elon Musk may be on his way to becoming world’s first trillionaire Last month, he won a shareholder vote that would reward him with $1 trillion in Tesla shares over the next decade for hitting certain performance targets, which would translate to about $100 billion a year.
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To understand how crazy this is, read the Washington Post created an interactive tool this lets you see how occupations across the US stack up based on Musk’s annual salary.
Especially, richest man in the world She will earn more annually than all elementary school teachers in the United States.
There are 4 million elementary school teachers in the United States; will take home $3 billion more each year than all of them combined, based on to the Washington Post.
Let me repeat: One man, Elon Musk, will make more money than this in a single year. 4 million There are (4…MILLION) school teachers in our country.
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What’s more, according to the Washington Post’s calculator, each year he’ll earn roughly equal to the sum of everyone’s paychecks. 3.2 million U.S. cashiers earn $72 billion more than all U.S. family medicine physicians, $68 billion more than all U.S. mechanical engineers, and $47 billion more than all U.S. police officers. Let me remind you again, this One Man!
Unsurprisingly, this new fact, which puts Musk’s wealth into perspective, went viral across the internet and people had more to say:
“This is disgusting,” one person wrote.
“Sure seems like a good way to run a society,” another said jokingly.
“This is why children, billionaires and trillionaires are the sign of a failed society,” another wrote on Reddit.
Some pointed out the problems he could solve with his wealth: “He could pay for it all and still be rich. So is the hunger in the world. But he won’t be able to because he has the empathy and emotional intelligence of a damp sponge.”
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Others noted that even though they knew it might be against their best interests, some would still cheer: “A minimum wage worker in Central America with no healthcare will be celebrating this.”
One million dollars is just 0.001% of Musk’s proposed $100 billion annual Tesla stake. To put this in perspective, for someone who wins The average annual salary in the USA is $63,7950.001% is roughly $0.64. So to him, a million dollars is actually just stray coins clattering around his dryer.
How would $1,000,000 change your life? What would you do with this money? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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