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Congrats to Elon Musk on becoming the planet Earth's first trillionaire (hopefully this is the only place in the Universe where such a thing can happen, but I can't guarantee that).
We all need a bit of money saved to fall back on, but I reckon a trillion dollars might be setting the ceiling a bit high. Money is a pretty good system for making bartering easier and to reward those who work hard/steal (or whose ancestors worked hard/stole), but unfortunately the worst people in the world see it as a competition, where the wealthiest person is seen as "the best" and sadly also exerts political influence.
The kind of person who accrues a trillion dollars is the last person who should have influence on the world, because they clearly care about nothing but themselves.
I've said it before but the dick swinging/ very occasional labia swinging of being rich shouldn't be about who has the most money, but who has SPENT the most money. To win you should aim to die with nothing, BUT have spent billions (preferably not all on yourself) then you are the winner. If you die with more than your immediate family needs to get by on then you have FAILED and are a fucking cuck or non-masculine (or very occasionally non-feminine) poo-bum and all the other people who have earned billions but spent it (preferably on other people) are laughing at you and your tiny (or very occasionally much too large) genitalia.
I actually can't think of any women who fit into the idiot billionaire category (which doesn't mean there aren't some), but Lauren Sanchez is someone who shows how it can be done.
Imagine being the trillionaire who ploughed your money back into saving the world. They might rename the planet Earth after you. Earth is such a bad name for a planet, especially one which is mainly water and only has a bit of earth on it. Imagine if we renamed it Musk. By choice, rather than because you have forced us to.
Sorry if that's made you shudder and feel a bit sick, but it's a small price to pay for saving humanity. But it's better than Planet Trump.
Trump doesn't seem to understand that if you want your name on something permanently then others have to make that choice and that if you do it while you're still in office, it will get changed as soon as you're not in office (or sometimes while you're still in office). I think if you told Trump we'd name the planet after him if he used his power for good then that might be enough for him to change his ways.
We could always change it back as soon as he's dead.
What we have to make billionaires and above understand is that if you die with a trillion pounds in your bank account then this is a massive failure. You have earned all that money for someone else to spend. You have worked hard so that someone else never has to work at all.
I'm very conscious of that fact that I will probably not live to spend all the money I've earned. I have the slight annoyance of a young family that I need to make sure have enough to survive if I am no longer here. I will still have worked myself into an early grave so that others will prosper though.
Not just my kids, but whoever Catie marries next. When I had testicular cancer and thought I'd die, I thought about who would end up drinking all the posh whisky I'd been saving up for a special occasion. As I said in "Can I Have My Ball Back?" It was not going to be me (indeed I have not drunk any whisky since then), but it could easily be some chancer who'd taken advantage of my wife's grief and got their feet under the table.
Did I fight my way through a virus on my last tour to earn the money that would pay for some bloke to go on holiday with my wife? Or for my kids to decide they never needed to work and live a life of leisure (just checked the tour accounts and there was not enough money for this it seems. In fact all the profits were spent before the year ended).
I only have a few thousand pounds in savings, so I might be able to spend it all as long if I put my mind to it, but you'd really have to work to spend a trillion. Especially if you're the kind of person who doesn't use their money to buy new schools and hospitals and charities. And you're not that kind of person if you become a trillionaire, because you'd have given away too much money already to become one.
How much money would you have to have before you thought - maybe I should spend this on other people?
A million? Ten million? Fifty million?
Have you hit your limit yet? That's why you'll never be a trillionaire you idiot? And why you won't ever have a colony on Mars. That's also true of Elon Musk ironically but at least he can have a go.
