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Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire

Ryan Mac and Ben Casselman, reporting for The New York Times (gift link):

Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire on Friday.

The tech mogul reached that milestone when shares of his rocket company SpaceX began trading on the stock market, opening at $150, signaling a new era of ultra-affluence and widening wealth inequality.

We never figured out how to solve the billionaire problem, so now we have a trillionaire—and one of the most atrocious persons in the world, to boot.

We’ll need to update this tee shirt.

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