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Can you spend $1 trillion? We hand you Musk’s fortune to find out 

15 June 2026
This content originally appeared on Al Jazeera.

On Friday, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire after his company SpaceX launched its initial public offering.

A trillion is a 1 with 12 zeros, or 1,000 billions. To try to make sense of that, even if you burned through $1m every day, it would take 2,700 years to spend $1 trillion. With $1 trillion, you could fund global famine relief 166 times, provide clean water to everyone on Earth for 20 years, rebuild Gaza 14 times or give $125 to every person in the world.

Because there’s nothing like spending money, even imaginary money, to understand its scale, how would you spend $1 trillion? Use the + buttons to add items to your cart and see your allocation across 35 categories.

*All values are estimates.