Elon Musk has done well lately, at least financially, if not in mental health. His businesses and investments and chicanery have netted him an estimated 450 some-odd dollars, placing him in the company of, well, literally no other wealthy humans like Bezos and Zuckerberg who trail hundreds of billions behind. Just for the heck of it I took a moderately deep dive into this topic and present my results below, based upon the 2023-2024 GDP of all the sovereign nations on the face of the earth, at least according to the IMF and World Bank. Whether economically logical or not I’ve compared Elon Musk’s present estimated net worth with the GDP of all sovereign states still in existence today, although some are teetering. Logical or not, this has been fun; hope you like it.
By the way, Elon Musk, the country, is designated as “The Principality of MUSK”:
Next in our review is the World Bank’s GDP data for 32 countries, one of which I have added to update its (incomplete) data, i.e., adding in The Principality of MUSK. Note that the World Bank includes 217 countries as having lower GDP than Elon Musk’s estimated net worth – These amount to 185 sovereign states, including Iran, Denmark, South Africa, Portugal, New Zealand, Finland, and just about the total number of Latin American countries, encompassing Central and South America, other than Brazil and Mexico. Given the Principality of MUSK’s propinquity to the incoming U.S. President, one can guess that the Principality may move up several notches in the list below by the end of 2025, perhaps surpassing Saudi Arabia, Norway, and Spain. It is equally possible that the Principality may fall off the map altogether given its chaotic and clinically psychotic leadership, of course, the same could befall the United States bearing in mind its own embrace of mass psychosis.
