This 2022 Elon Musk “unseated” Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world, Forbes magazine reported in early April.
Being the CEO of Tesla and the SpaceX company, has an accumulated fortune of 219,000 million dollars, which is regarding 48,000 million more than the founder of Amazon (who went on to occupy second place on the list).
Despite this fact, the tycoon said this week in a conversation with the director of TED, Chris Anderson, he didn’t have a house of his own and that’s why he used to sleep at his friends’ houses.
“There are a lot of people out there who can’t stand the world of millionaires, who are greatly offended with the notion that an individual can have the same wealth as a billion poor people together”, Anderson comments almost at the end of the meeting hanging on YouTube.
Immediately, and without waiting for a specific question, the richest man in the world answers that he believes that there are axiomatic flaws that lead to that conclusion. “Sure, it would be problematic if I consumed billions of dollars a year in personal consumption, but it is not the case (…) In fact I don’t even have a house right now.”.
Along the same lines, he added that he is not usually a hotel user. “If I travel to the Bay Area, where most of Tesla’s engineering operations are, broken in my friends extra rooms”.
“I don’t own a yacht, nor do I take vacations. The only exception is my plane (a jet), but if I didn’t use it I would have fewer hours a day to work,” he concluded.
In recent days, the billionaire has been the focus of controversy for his intention to buy all the shares of the social network Twitter, for regarding 43 billion dollars, proposal that to date the platform has rejected.