Cash can’t purchase happiness, however it could actually purchase Elon Musk a social media platform and the power to publicly beef with somebody half his age. The projected trillionaire took a swipe at singer Billie Eilish’s intelligence Monday after the singer used her following to name out the insane amount of cash being hoarded by the richest man on this planet.
“She’s not the sharpest tool in the shed,” Musk wrote, attacking Eilish’s choice to reshare a handful of infographics citing numerous methods Musk may do some good with among the billions of {dollars} he already has.
Elon Musk
“Musk could choose to spend $40 billion every year to end world hunger by 2030 or provide universal safe clean water for $140 billion for the planet for the next seven years,” one slide, shared from nonprofit My Voice, My Selection, learn.
Doubling down on her emotions surrounding Musk’s lack of humanitarian involvement regardless of being value round $500 billion, Eilish added one other put up to make issues clear.
“Fucking pathetic pussy bitch coward,” she wrote atop a black background.
Eilish has been on a roll currently calling out the ultra-wealthy who’ve a good grip on their piles of cash.
“We’re in a time right now where the world is really, really bad and really dark and people need empathy and help more than, kind of, ever, especially in our country,” Eilish stated from the rostrum on the Oct. 29 WSJ Journal Innovator Awards.
“I’d say if you have money, it would be great to use it for good things, maybe give it to some people that need it.”
She then added, “Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties.”
The singer—who donated $11.5 million from her current tour to varied charities— stated her piece as Meta CEO and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg sat within the crowd together with his spouse, Priscilla Chan. He was, unsurprisingly, not clapping together with the remainder of the venue.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
By way of billionaires, Musk particularly has managed to hoard his cash at an distinctive and really questionable degree.
The daddy of 14 has been characterised as somebody who doesn’t dwell a lifetime of luxurious and, at occasions, even “below the poverty level.”
His ex, Grimes, with whom he shares three kids, stated in 2022 that she slept on a mattress with a gap in it as a result of Musk refused to cough up a pair hundred {dollars} for a brand new one.
Along with outright refusing to make use of his cash to contribute to the economic system), the Tesla CEO has dumped his actual property portfolio and as a substitute opted to sofa browsing together with his buddies.
“I’m literally staying at friends’ places,” he advised head of TED, Chris Anderson. “If I travel to the Bay Area, which is where most of Tesla engineering is, I basically rotate through friends’ spare bedrooms.”
And as for his charitable donations, Musk’s observe report of giving again not solely fell in need of its 5 % required of personal foundations three years in a row, however the cash he does give usually helps his personal pursuits.
This is sensible coming from a person who reshared a meme calling individuals who want authorities help “parasites.” Musk additionally spent the higher a part of early 2025 slicing federal jobs and ripping funds away from foundations receiving authorities grants as head of the Division of Authorities Effectivity.
As for Eilish, her stance on hoarding wealth appears to be in opposition not simply to Musk however to your complete Trump administration working alongside billionaires. In any case, President Donald Trump has been outwardly towards SNAP and in assist of constructing well being care much less accessible to these in want.
So whereas Musk may say Eilish isn’t so clever for talking towards wealth hoarding, she appears to be echoing an analogous sentiment shared throughout the nation.
