Two Online Games Invite You To Spend Elon Musk’s Money
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a billionaire? What would you spend your money on? Now you have a chance to step into a billionaire’s shoes with two online games that allow you to spend Elon Musk’s money.
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Available on the website of British car rental company Leasing Options, the online game Spending Elon’s Money gives you a chance to spend Musk’s $166 billion fortune in just 30 seconds.
Players are given 12 items they can spend the money on. The options include: McDonald’s Big Mac ($8).
Netflix subscription ($18).
Nike Air Jordans ($227).
Playstation 5 ($500).
MacBook Pro ($1,838).
Trip to Disney World ($7,072).
Rolex watch ($41,514).
Tesla Model S Plaid + ($194,237).
Home in the UK ($347,756).
NYC apartment ($1 million).
Private jet ($4.5 million).
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch ($50 million).
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Source: Leasing Options
It’s not surprising that the list of items includes a Tesla and the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch, two of Musk’s pet projects. However, there isn’t any Bitcoin or Dogecoin.
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You can buy as many of each item as you want. Three buttons allow you to choose whether you buy one, 10, or 15 of each item. So, if you want a fleet of Teslas, go for it. Or if you want to spend it all on Nike Air Jordans, have at it. Heck, you could even buy every single person in the world at least two Big Macs or a one-month Netflix subscription for that kind of money.
When the time is up, you get your resulting “bill,” which you can share on Facebook or Twitter.
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The game shows how large Musk’s fortune is The point of the game is “to demonstrate how outrageously large Musk’s net worth is,” a spokesperson for Leasing Options told CNBC. Tesla CEO Musk is ranked second on Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. His reported $179 billion fortune, which is larger than what the game offers, is second only to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s net worth of $211 billion. Article continues below advertisement It’s not easy to spend all that money in just 30 seconds, especially on the first go-around when you don’t know the options to purchase. Leasing Options may have another motive for offering the game besides people’s amusement—the car rental company offers lease deals on a few Tesla models.
I hate being Tesla boss, says Elon Musk
Elon Musk says he ‘hates’ being the boss of electric car giant Tesla and the company’s directors ‘don’t listen to me’.
Giving evidence in a trial about the company’s £1.9billion takeover of Solar City in 2016, the billionaire entrepreneur said he dislikes being in charge of Tesla but added the company could not run without him.
‘I rather hate it and I would prefer to spend my time on design and engineering,’ he said.
Grilling: Tesla founder Elon Musk (pictured) said he dislikes being in charge of the electric car maker but added the company could not run without him
Tesla shareholders have accused Musk of putting them under pressure to sign off on the deal to buy Solar City, a solar panel maker he founded with his cousins.
They say Tesla’s money was wasted on the takeover, which they claim was essentially a bailout as Solar City was running out of money.
And Musk’s 22 per cent stake in Tesla, they allege, makes him akin to a controlling shareholder – a role that would give him the ability to have more influence than other investors over the company’s decisions.
A judge will use the two-week trial to decide if the Solar City deal was fair to Tesla shareholders.
If the judge rules against Musk, who also runs the rocket company Space X, he could be asked to repay to Tesla what it spent on the deal. It could be one of the largest-ever damages payouts.
Musk, who is the third-richest man in the world with a £115billion fortune, vigorously denies the allegations.
Testifying for a second day, the 50-year-old father of seven sparred with lawyer Randall Baron who has been grilling him about his role in the Solar City deal. ‘Your questions are so deceptive,’ Musk complained.
They clashed over the meaning of the word ‘cabal’, which Baron used to characterise the Tesla team that was updating Musk daily in July 2016 about the deal.
When Musk objected that ‘cabal’ sounded sinister, Baron countered that it typically meant a group of people working together toward a common purpose. ‘Usually not in a good way,’ Musk muttered.
Musk rejected any notion that he pressed the board to pursue the takeover, but acknowledged that he had recommended an acquisition price of $28.50 a share.
The board ultimately decided to offer $26.50 to $28.50 a share.
‘They don’t listen to me, obviously,’ he said.