One trillion dollars never seems like a real amount of money. Except when you refer to our national debt.
But the idea of one person actually having one trillion dollars never seemed like it could feasibly happen. A new report says not only can it happen, it might happen sooner than we think.
The anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said in its annual assessment of global inequalities that the world's first Trillionaire could very well appear in the next ten years, and that very lucky person can very well thank the pandemic for it.
According to the Associated Press, since the pandemic hit in 2020, almost five billion people around the globe have gotten poorer, but the five richest men have seen their wealth more than double, up 114%.
The current leader in the clubhouse is Elon Musk, who has a net worth of $230 billion.
To put some things into perspective, a stack of a million one-dollar bills would be 358 feet high, and a billion would be about 68 MILES high, which would be right around the edge of space.
A TRILLION one-dollar bills stacked up would be just under 6,800 miles high, or almost a third of the distance to the Moon! That's a lot of bills.
