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Elon Musk and the trillionaire class test democracy’s limits

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20.06.2026

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Elon Musk and the trillionaire class test democracy’s limits

The one-person, one-vote principle never accounted for billionaires, let alone trillionaires

Published June 20, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)

Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, has made him the world’s first trillionaire. His fortune is now estimated at over $1.3 trillion. This is more than four times the wealth of the world’s second-richest man, Alphabet co-founder Larry Page (estimated at $300 billion).

A trillion is a number so large it stops being a number and becomes an abstraction, something inconceivable. It possesses an almost magical power, like a........

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