US singer Billie Eilish called on billionaires to 'give your money away', at the Wall Street Journal's Innovator Awards in New York. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images
While many of us are rinsing out our recyclables, fretting about climate breakdown and braving Irish roads by bike, the world’s growing number of billionaires have other challenges.
Elon Musk has reportedly negotiated a performance-related package with the shareholders of Tesla worth a trillion dollars (€864.9 billion). To bag it, he must sell 20 million Tesla cars, 10 million self-driving car subscriptions, one million humanoid robots and one million robotaxis. (For context, a trillion dollars has twelve zeros: 1,000,000,000,000.)
It is a sign of the times we are living in when such ambition is rewarded with an amount of money that no human being could spend in their lifetime.
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