{"id":606246,"date":"2026-05-22T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=606246"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T23:15:00","slug":"the-trillion-dollar-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=606246","title":{"rendered":"The Trillion-Dollar Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trillion-Dollar Man<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Noel Williams via AmericanThinker.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

If he had any, Bernie would be pulling his hair out at the prospect of Elon Musk becoming\u00a0a trillionaire. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Socialist imbeciles spurn success, preferring downtrodden masses who wallow in government dependence rather than exerting individual independence. As is well known, socialists\u00a0portray\u00a0billionaires as a “policy mistake.” <\/strong><\/p>\n

Extrapolating from that, they must consider the potential coming of trillionaires as a policy catastrophe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The first man likely to reach that lofty target — if his companies meet stringent performance objectives — is Elon Musk. <\/strong><\/p>\n

At first blush, that seems exorbitant, but let\u2019s run some numbers.<\/p>\n

Musk heads several remarkable companies, but for this exercise, we\u2019ll focus on Tesla, which was founded in 2003.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tesla\u2019s current headcount<\/a>\u00a0is about 125,000 (give or take).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Average headcount<\/a>\u00a0(hard to calculate due to extreme scaling) over its lifespan is approximately 51,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Average salary<\/a>\u00a0(excluding bonuses and benefits) is also approximate, at about $100,000 per annum.<\/p>\n

So, 23 (years in existence) * 51000 (average headcount) * 100,000 (estimated avg. salary, per above link) equals $117,300,000,000.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s over 117 billion dollars paid to\u00a0direct<\/em>\u00a0Tesla employees over its lifespan — again, that excludes all the other benefits that may accrue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Remember, this is before ramping up production of Tesla\u2019s Optimus robots that will become the predominant contributor to revenue (and productivity gains that will benefit society at large).<\/p>\n

It is estimated that Tesla alone\u00a0supports over 600,000 jobs<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(think supply chain and contractor jobs).<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s consider their larger impact on growing societal wealth. <\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s tricky to determine the average salary of such positions, but let\u2019s go with a\u00a0conservative $60,000 per annum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the calculation: 23 (years in business) * 600,000 (jobs tied to Tesla) * 60,000 (approx. salary) equals $828,000,000,000.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s over eight hundred billion,<\/strong> by golly (combine that with the above, and you’re teetering on one trillion).<\/p>\n

Admittedly, these are imprecise estimates (maybe underestimates), but the point is clear: Tesla alone has generated enormous payrolls for direct and indirect employees combined, and the future looks brighter still.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In fact, Tesla is inexorably becoming much\u00a0more than a car company<\/a>: there are all-important data repositories, AI, energy, autonomous driving, and robots. Indeed, if Musk hits the pay targets that may catapult him to trillionaire status, the\u00a0estimated market cap of Tesla<\/a>\u00a0will be around 8.5 trillion dollars.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Tesla, but there\u2019s also Neuralink, the Boring Company (tunneling, etc.), X, and xAI. Oh yeah\u2026 then there is SpaceX,<\/strong> which currently employs thousands of dedicated full-time workers worldwide.<\/p>\n

Its\u00a0Initial Public Offering<\/a>\u00a0is gearing up, with an\u00a0anticipated value<\/a>\u00a0of well over $1 trillion.<\/p>\n

The socialist politicians propagating envy will have hysterical fits over that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking of whom, Obama once mused that at some point a businessman has \u201cearned enough,\u201d and that is well below a billion dollars. Well, given all the societal wealth (not to mention philanthropic aid and services to hapless victims of natural and man-made disasters throughout the world) that Musk has generated, maybe one trillion dollars is about enough.<\/p>\n

Who would you rather have access to those resources: a creative, market-driven entrepreneur (albeit one who occasionally benefits from industrial policy), or a fuddy-duddy, central-planning socialist sequestered from the dynamism of consumer-oriented markets?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 05\/22\/2026 – 19:15<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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