The claim sounds absurd, but the math checks out. Following SpaceX's record-setting IPO on June 12, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire, with a net worth around $1.05 to $1.1 trillion according to Forbes and Bloomberg estimates. Jeff Bezos, the fourth-richest person on Earth, sits at roughly $251 billion.
That leaves a gap of about $800 billion between Bezos and Musk. By contrast, the distance between an ordinary American and Bezos is only Bezos's full $251 billion, since the average person's net worth is a rounding error against figures this large. Even using the mean US household net worth of roughly $1 million, which is itself inflated by the very billionaires in question, an average American is about $251 billion behind Bezos, while Bezos is more than three times further behind Musk.
In other words, $
The claim sounds absurd, but the math checks out. Following SpaceX's record-setting IPO on June 12, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire, with a net worth around $1.05 to $1.1 trillion according to Forbes and Bloomberg estimates. Jeff Bezos, the fourth-richest person on Earth, sits at roughly $251 billion.
That leaves a gap of about $800 billion between Bezos and Musk. By contrast, the distance between an ordinary American and Bezos is only Bezos's full $251 billion, since the average person's net worth is a rounding error against figures this large. Even using the mean US household net worth of roughly $1 million, which is itself inflated by the very billionaires in question, an average American is about $251 billion behind Bezos, while Bezos is more than three times further behind Musk.
In other words, $
