Scale of one trillion dollars

If Elon Musk achieves certain benchmarks for Tesla over the next decade, he gets a $1 trillion bonus. While unlikely Tesla gets there, a trillion is kind of a lot, especially for one person. But our human brains aren’t great at imagining numbers at that scale. So, for the Washington Post, Alyssa Fowers and Leslie Shapiro scaled a trillion by total U.S. workers in a given job.

I like to think in units of number of Jack in the Box tacos I can buy, but I guess that’s more useful for smaller values. Although less so recently. Thanks, inflation.

It’s crazy that just a few years ago we were looking at how comical Jeff Bezos’ net worth of $172 billion was at the time. Pocket change now.