{"id":8349,"date":"2026-10-08T11:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8349"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:41:46","slug":"how-massive-is-elon-musks-trillion-dollar-fortune-spend-it-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=8349","title":{"rendered":"How Massive Is Elon Musk\u2019s Trillion-Dollar Fortune? Spend It Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Some of the items carry over from Spend Bill Gates Money, some are different. How did you think about the best mix of options to give people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">This time I was going for more tangible things, so you can visualize it. It\u2019s honestly hard to think of items; once you get to $100 million, there are only so many things out on the market that you can buy. So we have the Las Vegas Sphere in there, and aircraft carriers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">After a point it\u2019s kind of interesting that you\u2019re like, OK, I could buy 1,000 more tanks, what would that really get me? Part of the fun of this one is just the futility of it. At a certain point, what more could a person need?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>For sure. I just bought 1,000 monster trucks, and I still have $999,650,000 left.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">There were a few different ideas. One is if you had a trillion dollars and just had a stack of money, and as you spend it you see the trillion dollars go down, but it\u2019s actually pretty hard to render a trillion dollars in bills on the page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">I had thoughts of more abstract things. Once you get to a trillion dollars you\u2019re really buying power, so how many companies you could buy or how much influence you have. But for most people, that\u2019s a harder way to visualize things than, like, oh, that is a million racehorses I just bought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Did you run into any technical challenges building this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Initially I wanted everything to be 3D models on the site. But if you try to get your laptop to render a million monster trucks, it\u2019s just going to freeze. So I had to do a lot of trickery to get this 3D effect without actually using 3D models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>It doesn\u2019t just tell us about Elon Musk, it tells us about the things we\u2019re buying. I looked back at the original Spend Bill Gates\u2019 Money, and the Big Mac was $2. It\u2019s $6 now. 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