Bill Gates resides in a mansion worth $127 million. The 10th richest man in the world,
Mukesh Ambani, owns a billion-dollar home with 27 floors and 600 employees. Russian
billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, former owner of the Brooklyn Nets, dwells in Villa Leopolda, the
third most expensive house in the world, and most expensive in Europe. We could make a long list of
billionaires and their homes worth hundreds of millions. Yet, the richest man in the world,
Elon Musk, resides in a Fifty Thousand-dollar home. One of these Billionaires is not like the
others. And, you’re about to find out why. Now is the time to like, subscribe,
and ring the notification bell! It goes hand-in-hand! A billionaire
with a multi-million dollar house settled on a huge compound if not a 100-acre estate.
To date, one of the rare billionaires to remain frugal with his living quarters is Warren Buffet.
Despite his roughly $105.6 billion net worth, and being the sixth-wealthiest man in the world,
he enjoys a life of simple taste, thrifty living, yet generous philanthropy. Warren Buffett’s house
is the same one he bought in 1958 for $31,500. Adjusted for the time and inflation, today that
equals roughly $290,000. And when asked about his intentions of putting his own home up for sale,
Warren told CNBC interviewers, “I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”
The other odd ball is genius Elon Musk. And he doesn’t conform. He goes against the grain in
almost every aspect of his life, and has even had the webbles to go against the Woke mob.
He bashes Facebook for their efforts to suppress information. And, he puts the United Nations in
check for their mismanagement of spending as well as other atrocious incidents. No,
Musk is not the normie billionaire shaking hands with politicians, being a “Yes” man, or bending
the knee to appease the masses. And when it comes to where he lays his head at night, a
tiny home in Texas worth $50,000 is all he needs. The next question you’ll have certainly concerns
the fact that property is one of the best investments in the world. It’s akin to gold.
We don’t live in a magical world of alchemy, so no one can make more land, like they can’t make more
gold. So, here’s why Elon Musk chooses to live in conditions substandard of his income and networth.
Elon's Unorthodox Approach to Property Musk who is worth about 220 billion USD
made this announcement via his Twitter account in July of this year,
“My primary home is literally a ~$50k house in Boca Chica / Starbase that I rent from SpaceX.
It’s kinda awesome though." That home that he’s talking about is a foldable,
prefabricated home, created by Boxabl, which is a housing startup company based in Las Vegas.
The “Boxable Casita” is a transportable 20x20 unit that’s only about 400 square
feet. It is set up like a studio apartment and features a fully equipped kitchen, bathroom,
living room, and bedroom. It was about a year after Musk
announced in a tweet that he was “selling almost all physical possessions” and “will own no house”,
did he actually move into the foldable home. And, Musk actually kept his word as we witnessed
him selling most of the properties he owned. This seems absolutely bizarre! Most recently, in June,
he listed his last piece of real estate, located in San Francisco, for $37.5 million. In a tweet,
he said that the home “just needs to go to a large family who will live there. It’s a special place.”
The Real Reason Elon Lives in a 50,000-dollar "Tiny Home"
You’ve heard about Elon Musk’s aspirations to colonize Mars. He has a goal of achieving his
out-of-this-world plan and that means doing whatever it takes including selling off his
multi-million-dollar property portfolio and living in the 50,000 dollars pre-fab
home that he rents from Space X. It is actually a house so small and lightweight,
that a Tesla car can pull it on a trailer without the help of semi-trucks.
To gain a little more insight into why Musk made the decision to live in a "tiny home"
as opposed to a lavish palace, just remember that once Musk agrees on and initiates a plan,
he’s hell-bent on its completion. In this case, a human colony on the Red Planet is his goal.
So, even though the home doesn’t resemble a townhouse in Manhattan, nor does it look
like your run of the mill mass-produced home in Suburbia. It is a way to vicariously live
on Mars as the first housing developments on Mars will surely resemble the Boxable Casita.
Remember, to successfully build a colony on Mars, buildings would
need to be erected quickly and with little effort using as little energy as possible.
In other words, colonizing Mars would require a highly efficient process with great precision;
One that would look much like an assembly line with a very advanced manufacturing processes.
So, the key for the success of this process mostly depends on employing very small,
lightweight, and easily transported materials that are easy to construct
but durable enough for long-term dwelling in the harsh environments of the Red Planet.
Apparently for Elon Musk, these variables and requirements are best tested with the Boxabl home
placed in the arid dry climate of South Texas. So it seems the real reason Musk
is living in a 50,000-dollar pre-fabricated tiny home is for product testing purposes
and perhaps to give him a better grasp on what will work when Space X colonizes Mars.
Space X Starships in Brownsville, Texas Keep in mind that Musk founded his third company,
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, in 2002 with the intention of building
spacecraft for commercial space travel. So, it’s not something he just recently
thought up as a ‘get rich quick scheme’. So, by 2008, SpaceX was well established,
and NASA awarded the company the contract to handle cargo transport for the International
Space Station—with plans for astronaut transport which became a reality in 2017 when NASA awarded
Space X a contract to ferry astronauts back and forth to the International Space Station.
But before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s remember that in 2012, Space X purchased land
in Brownsville, Texas which would later become the testing site for Starship and the Falcon rockets
as well as the sight for the Space X Starbase. Before SpaceX arrived in Brownsville, Texas,
it was a city of roughly 175,000 people, on the U.S./Mexico. It is best known for being involved
in international trade thanks to the Port of Brownsville. Although the University of Texas
Rio Grande Valley has a campus in Brownsville, the city remains a quiet south Texas town.
Moreover, Elon Musk needed to live on sight for his epic creations. In April of 2021,
NASA gave Space X another contract to build the next space vehicle that will land on the moon.
Then, in August of 2021, Starship, with a 230-foot Super Heavy booster below and the
164-foot Starship above – stood on a platform at the launch pad as dozens of visitors
looked on just outside the gates. Aside from previous test launches,
many of which ended in fireballs and fireworks in the sky, Space X marked the most visual milestone
to date for Starship and this is paving the way for a full-fledged orbital test flight.
When fully assembled, Starship stands as the tallest and most powerful rocket in the world,
though it will have to fly a demonstration mission before truly claiming those titles.
Because of the Starship testing site and the construction of Starbase which will
be the future headquarters and sight of operation for Space X, Elon decided he
had better buy some property in Texas to be close to the project he loves so much.
Now that you know why Elon Musk lives in a $50,000 home, what do you think
of his dedication and willingness to experience a replica of Mar’s living?
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