What If Elon Musk's $410B Got Split Among All Americans?

Here’s a sobering thought experiment: Musk’s current net worth ($410 billion as of June 2025) divided equally across 341.9 million Americans? Each person gets exactly $1,199. A family of four? $4,797.

Not exactly life-changing, right?

But wait—if you throw in the top 10 richest Americans (Arnault, Bezos, Gates, Buffett, etc.), their combined $1.91 trillion works out to $5,594 per person. Still pocket change for the 1%, but maybe enough to catch someone’s breath during tough times.

Here’s the wild part: the average American’s net worth is $1.06 million, but half the country sits at just $23,588. If that average person gave it all away? Everyone else gets roughly 0.003 cents.

So yeah, Musk’s billions do hit different when you see the math. Wealth inequality isn’t just a number—it’s a scale problem.