Perhaps you’ve lived under a rock these past few years and hadn’t heard that Elon Musk gave up all his mansions and practically lived under a rock. Maybe your rock, if your rock is in Texas.
His new home is worth $50 000 and is 400 square feet. It’s meant to be efficient. Perhaps Elon doesn’t want every other weekend with his kids. “Sorry kids,” he might say “but I’m strapped for space.”
At least he’s not wasteful like other half trillionaires. Okay so there are no other half trillionaires. But let’s just look at what he could do in the real estate market with that half trillion.
The average value of a fully detached home in my area is nearly a million dollars. Elon could buy a new one every single day to rest his head in somewhere that is pristine. He could then bulldoze the home in the morning. He would go through about one tenth of his wealth in his remaining 50 years or so if he did this.
If he wanted to make people exist in his current squalor of a $50 000 home, he could put up 10 million of the things and house a population the size of Sweden’s. Every man, woman and child of Sweden could have their own Elon house.
Maybe Elon just wants street cred with the homeless. “No I’m not quite there,” he can say despondently, “But I am down to 400 square feet to live in.”
Maybe feeding the homeless in an episode of the Big Bang Theory wasn’t quite enough for his street credibility. After all, the show is fictional and didn’t feed the actual homeless. And although Elon said he wanted to eat a pie with a bite out of it, they never actually showed the pie or him eating any part of it.
After this show people might think Elon actually had something in common with the homeless. However, years of actions afterwards proved that he didn’t and now, living in a 400 square foot home, he might move back to those halcyon days when people thought he might actually care.
