Elon Musk’s Net Worth in Real Things: Sandwiches, Sneakers and School Supplies
At the time of this writing, Elon Musk is worth around $820 billion, according to Forbes. That’s over $14 billion less than he had been worth the day before, given the daily swings in his stock holdings.
He’s also worth more than double the next richest person, Google cofounder Larry Page (with a mere $306 billion).
These numbers are so high as to become conceptual. You can’t really wrap your head around them — until you start illustrating them with real, everyday items that we’re all familiar with.
Sandwiches
According to CaterCow, a footlong Fiery Meatball sub at Subway costs an average of $15. That means Musk could buy 54,666,666,667 (54.67 billion) sandwiches.
Hmm. That’s still so high that it doesn’t really make it less conceptual.
All right, so that’s 54.67 billion feet of sandwiches all lined up. That’s around 10.35 million miles, which means you could circle the earth with them 415 times. Or line them to the moon and back 43 times.
Or, if you were flying over those 10.35 million miles of subs, it would take you nearly two years of nonstop flying at 550 MPH to travel all those sandwiches.
Sneakers
Sneakers can cost anywhere from $50 to $150 or more, but to keep the numbers simple, let’s call the average cost $100. That means Must could buy 8.2 billion pairs of sneakers — enough to buy one pair for every person on the planet.
School Supplies
The average cost of school supplies for a K-12 student is $143.77, according to the National Retail Federation.
Musk could therefore buy 5.7 billion students their school supplies for a school year. Of course, there aren’t 5.7 billion students in the world, at least not K-12. But when you tweet at Musk asking him to help you out, just tell him you’re a lifelong learner.
iPhones
An iPhone Air (256 GB) costs $999 per Apple, as does the iPhone 17 (512GB). That means Musk could buy 820.8 million iPhones with his personal fortune. Who knows? Maybe the tweets from all those iPhones would be enough to revive X’s traffic to its Twitter days.
Honda CR-Vs
The bestselling non-pickup truck in the U.S. is the CR-V, which starts at $32,370, according to Kelley Blue Book.
So, Musk could buy 25.3 million mild-mannered SUVs with his net worth. That’s almost enough cars for every man, woman and child in Australia. And if you counted one of those cars every second, it would take you over 290 days to count them all.
Middle-Class Houses
Zillow pegs the average U.S. home price at $368,198. If Musk paid cash, he could buy 2.28 million houses.
That means he could buy a home for roughly every household in Colorado, Maryland, Wisconsin or Missouri. Without having to send his tax return and pay stubs to the mortgage lender.
Want to live like Elon? Start an electric car company. And a rocket company, and a satellite internet company, and a brain implant company, and an underground drilling company, and a half-dozen other ventures. Simple, right?
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