Elon Musk's $1 trillion fortune is so vast that Jeff Bezos is now closer in wealth to the average American

Elon Musk just became the first person in history to surpass a net worth of $1 trillion, thanks to a surge in the valuation of SpaceX, combined with his holdings in Tesla, xAI and X. (1)

"[Musk's net worth] is more than the net worth of Larry Page, $294.1B, Sergey Brin, $271.3B, Jeff Bezos, $248.9B and Mark Zuckerberg, $194.8B, combined," reads a viral X post (2).

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That's right. Musk makes the net worths of the world's richest people (3) somehow seem small.

"The average American is now closer to Jeff Bezos in net worth than Jeff Bezos is to Elon Musk," another viral X post (4) reads.

While it sounds absurd, since Bezos is one of the richest people on the planet, the numbers illustrate just how enormous the gap has become between Musk's wealth and his billionaire counterparts.