Published On 9/11/2025
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The approval of 75% of Tesla shareholders to give Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package sparked a wave of controversy and division on social media platforms, amid questions about the fairness of this exceptional deal and its consequences on the economy and society.
This approval came during Tesla’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas, where Musk – who is already the richest person on the planet with a fortune of $482 billion – celebrated with his strange acrobatic movements and danced with his human robot, amid shareholders’ cheers in his name.
This unprecedented deal officially makes Musk the world’s first trillionaire, as no one in history has reached the size of his current astronomical wealth, in a move that reflects the growing gap between the wealthy and the rest of society under the global capitalist system.
To put this staggering number into context, if Musk spent $100 every second of the trillion dollars, he would have spent a full 317 years until the amount ran out and he declared bankruptcy, which is difficult for the human mind to comprehend easily.
With this amount, Musk can buy 333 luxury skyscrapers, or 2,200 huge Airbus passenger planes, or 7,150 tons of gold – that is, twice the reserves of the United States – and he can even buy all the English Premier League and Spanish La Liga clubs at once.
However, Musk will not receive cash dollars in his hand, but rather he will obtain 25% of Tesla shares, that is, hundreds of millions of shares, and this will double his money spread in the financial markets to reach a trillion dollars in the form of market value.
Crazy goals
But this deal is conditional on achieving crazy goals within 10 years, the most important of which is collecting profits worth $400 billion, raising the company’s market value to $8.5 trillion, in addition to selling 20 million Tesla cars and a million human robots.
Tesla’s board of directors threatened to expel Musk permanently from the company if he failed to achieve the agreed-upon goals, stressing that they would not bear his loss if he did not fulfill the obligations specified in the trillion-dollar deal contract.
Musk faces terrifying challenges to achieve these goals, especially since Tesla is currently suffering from a state of decline, as its sales and production declined for the first time last year, an indicator that raises concern among analysts and investors about the company’s future.
The matter is further complicated by the fact that Tesla shares have fallen by 3.6% since the approval of Musk’s trillion-dollar wage package, which reflects the market’s fears about the company’s ability to achieve the ambitious goals announced in the specified period.
The Networks program (11/9/2025) monitored some of the tweeters’ comments regarding Elon Musk’s wealth and this deal, where Chris wrote:
Elon won’t get anything if he doesn’t increase Tesla’s revenues significantly. Whoever believes that Elon will achieve the very huge goals that qualify him to obtain the entire trillion dollars in the form of shares, he must buy as much Tesla shares as possible.
In turn, Ismail criticized the capitalist system that allows such obscene wealth, pointing to the growing social gap in the United States. He tweeted:
This is the result of the capitalist system that has no soul or morals. The wealth of just one person is about 2 trillion dollars… On the other hand, there are 43 million Americans standing in long lines begging for lunch every day
As for Fores, he stressed the difficulty of achieving the conditions set, noting that most analysts consider them impossible to implement. So he wrote:
There are very stringent operational standards that must be met in order to get there, most of which would be considered impossible for any CEO
On the other hand, Shahad defended the deal from an entrepreneurial perspective, and considered it a legitimate risk in exchange for potentially exceptional results. She tweeted:
This deal illustrates the difference between employees and entrepreneurs. Employees want guaranteed results, while entrepreneurs are betting on an uncertain future. Musk can fail and get nothing, or he can succeed and make history
This deal comes at a time when the electric car industry is witnessing fierce competition from Chinese, European and American companies, which increases the challenges facing Musk in his quest to achieve the ambitious goals associated with his trillion-dollar deal.
This deal raises broader questions about class differences in the world, the limits of individual wealth accumulation, and the impact of this on social and economic justice, in a discussion that goes beyond one person to cover the entire global economic system.