(RepublicanInformer.com)- The world’s richest man doesn’t have a bed he calls his own. He does not own a home and sleeps on couches and in guest bedrooms of various friends.
Elon Musk remarked in a video interview with Chris Anderson, the president of conference organizers TED, broadcast Monday, “I don’t even own property right now. I’m basically sleeping at friends’ places.”
Musk says that when he goes to the Bay Area, where most of Tesla’s engineering is done, he simply rotates around friends’ spare bedrooms.
Musk has a net worth of $251 billion. Anderson remarked that many people are offended by the concept of billionaires due to global economic inequity. Senator Elizabeth Warren, for example, has criticized billionaires like Musk for paying such low tax rates.
But Musk counters those assertions by saying It would be highly troublesome if he were spending billions of dollars on personal consumption every year, but that is not the case. Musk said he doesn’t buy boats or take trips, despite having a private plane.
He says his consumption is not that excessive. The plane is the exception, but he’d have fewer hours to work if he didn’t utilize it.
Despite being the world’s richest person, Musk’s statements appear to be his first acknowledgment that he does not have a permanent residence.
Friends of the millionaire have remarked on his frugal ways throughout the years.
He tweeted in May 2020 that he planned to sell all of his belongings and that he would “own no house.” In August 2021, Musk was rumored to be living in a $50,000 prefab house that he leased from SpaceX.
In a recent interview, musk’s on-again, off-again companion Grimes, born Claire Elise Boucher, admitted to living below the poverty line. She claimed that after her side of the mattress developed a hole he refused to buy a new one.
When Musk visited Silicon Valley, Larry Page, Google’s co-founder and former CEO claimed that he would write to Page and say, “I’m not sure where I’m going to sleep tonight. Is it cool if I drop by?”
Does having the most money in the world make one eccentric? Or is that eccentricity a factor in becoming the richest man in the world?
