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How much is too much? The trillionaire debate

How much is too much? The trillionaire debate

Update: 2025-11-10
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What could you buy with a trillion dollars? That's $1,000,000,000,000.

It's hard enough to grasp just how much money that is, let alone how a single person could ever accumulate that kind of wealth.

But with Tesla shareholders approving a record-breaking pay package for Elon Musk, the deal could make the world's richest man the first person in history to become a trillionaire.

So how did we get to a place where one person can accumulate so much wealth? And why is the gap widening between the world's richest and the rest of us? 

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How much is too much? The trillionaire debate

How much is too much? The trillionaire debate

Australian Broadcasting Corporation