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?
