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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Abbi Garton-Crosbie

Elon Musk's trillionaire status is the result of a broken economic system

Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire (Image: Getty Images)

A TRILLION dollars is usually used to describe the GDP of the largest economies in the world, but now it can equally be applied to the net worth of one man.

Last week, Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, an unprecedented accumulation of wealth that has been decades in the making.

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