"If Elon Musk achieves certain benchmarks for Tesla over the next decade, he gets a $1 trillion bonus. While unlikely Tesla gets there, a trillion is kind of a lot, especially for one person. But our human brains aren't great at imagining numbers at that scale. So, for the Washington Post, Alyssa Fowers and Leslie Shapiro scaled a trillion by total U.S. workers in a given job."
"I like to think in units of number of Jack in the Box tacos I can buy, but I guess that's more useful for smaller values. Although less so recently. Thanks, inflation. It's crazy that just a few years ago we were looking at how comical Jeff Bezos' net worth of $172 billion was at the time. Pocket change now."
Elon Musk could earn a $1 trillion bonus if Tesla meets certain benchmarks over the next decade. The likelihood of reaching those benchmarks appears low, but the payout would be extraordinarily large for a single individual. Human cognition struggles to grasp magnitudes at the trillion-dollar scale. A Washington Post exercise divided a trillion across total U.S. workers in specific jobs to provide perspective on how that sum would translate per person. Everyday units like fast-food tacos can help visualize smaller sums, but inflation reduces their usefulness. Previously astonishing fortunes, such as Jeff Bezos' $172 billion, now seem relatively smaller.
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