How would you spend Elon Musk’s $160 billion fortune? This online game gives you 30 seconds to do it
It’s taken Elon Musk decades to amass his more than $160 billion fortune. But a new online game lets you try to spend it all in under 30 seconds.
The game, called “Spending Elon’s Money,” is available to play for free on the website of Leasing Options, a British car rental company.
Players start with a total of $166 billion (Bloomberg’s latest estimate for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s net worth is $161 billion, as of Wednesday). Players are then given just half a minute to choose among a variety of items to “buy” with Musk’s massive fortune by clicking on them, while the game keeps tally.
Players can choose between smaller items, like an $8 McDonald’s Big Mac or $18 for a premium Netflix subscription, to progressively more expensive choices: a $40,000 Rolex watch, a $1 million New York City apartment, a $4.5 million private jet, or even $50 million to launch one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets. (Musk’s company actually lists the price tag for a Falcon 9 launch on its website as $62 million, and the other choices are not based on things he owns.)
“Spend on whatever you like, as many times as you like,” according to the instructions. Players can even click on buttons that allow them to buy 10 or 15 of each item per click to spend faster.
Here’s a Game to See If You Have What It Takes to Spend Elon Musk’s Billions
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There’sa little game for that. Leasing Options has created a 30-second game that aims to offer you a more concrete appreciation of what it’s like to be this insanely rich. All you have to do is click as many times on as many items from a list in a 30-second frame, and then compare your bill to Elon Musk’s $166 billion to see how much of it you’ve been able to spend.The items include silly stuff like McDonald’s burgers or Netflix subscriptions and more serious purchases like a Tesla Model S Plaid+, a private jet, an average home in the United Kingdom, or a fancy apartment in New York City. A Falcon 9 launch is also included, as the most expensive item at $50 million, but you’re a multi-billionaire, remember? Don’t let the price tag stop you; get yourself that rocket and do some space tourism The game is silly and, to a clear extent, senseless. But it does help to offer you an appreciation of the kind of fortune Musk has been able to amass—on paper, at least, since this money is tied up in Tesla stock, which means it’s incredibly volatile.To further drive the message across, Leasing Options says that Musk’s worth tops Apple and Microsoft’s net income, as well as their net incomes combined, rated at $102.8 billion. It’s also more than the revenue of the biggest carmakers in the world: Ford’s revenue is listed at $156 billion, Mitsubishi’s at $136 billion, Honda’s at $120 billion, and General Motors’ at $115.8 billion.Should Elon desire it, here are some things he could do with his money: he could buy every person in Los Angeles a Rolex watch, buy a MacBook Pro for every citizen of the UK, or two pairs of Nike Jordans for every person living in the entire United States. He could also buy two Model S Plaid+ cars for everyone in Iceland or a Netflix subscription for every human on earth, all 7.8 billion of us.Here’s the game.