{"id":9927,"date":"2026-06-13T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9927"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T12:01:01","slug":"a-trillion-dollars-is-a-stupid-amount-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9927","title":{"rendered":"A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong>Jess Weatherbed<\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 12, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elon Musk in front of a background of falling money.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Cath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/STK022_ELON_MUSK_CVIRGINIA4_K.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Elon Musk is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/948409\/elon-musk-trillionaire-spacex-ipo\">now officially the world&#8217;s first trillionaire<\/a>. That is a colossal amount of wealth (and by proxy, power) for one individual to have. Its scale &#8211; a thousand times more than a billion &#8211; is difficult to fathom for those of us who aren&#8217;t among the 3,363 billionaires that currently exist in our world. But let&#8217;s try to comprehend it anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The most frequently cited comparison is time. If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take <em>31,700 years<\/em> &#8211; to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting in the Pa \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/948917\/elon-musk-trillionaire-how-much-visualization\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/948917\/elon-musk-trillionaire-how-much-visualization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Weatherbed &bull; June 12, 2026 Elon Musk is now officially the world&#8217;s first trillionaire. That is a colossal amount of wealth (and by proxy, power) for one individual to have. Its scale &#8211; a thousand times more than a billion &#8211; is difficult to fathom for those of us who aren&#8217;t among the 3,363<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9927\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}