Yeah this is actually the equivalent of me putting 25 cents toward election fraud. Should not happen, outlaw billionaires. Outlaw 100 millionaires too.

Yep, the actual number is unprecedented but to him this is "between the couch cushions" money

Just for some numbers, I checked his current net worth and rounding this to $1 trillion and what he spent to $500 million that’s ~.05% of his net worth to break a record amount. My net worth I think is lower than my gross income of ~$70,000, but applying that percent to my income that’s like $35.

It's a trite point but do you think EM has all that money in cash? The real cost won't be the campaign ads, it's in all the effort to move his companies to a state that just went blue and the stock market realizing that he doesn't have a backdoor "in" to things. Tesla and SpaceX are both down by tens of billions. That's what hurts him

I like to explain the difference like this:

If you earned one million dollars a year (after tax, all expenses, etc) and spent none of it how long would it take you to earn a billion dollars? A thousand years.

If Musk gave away a million dollars a day, how long would it take him to give away a trillion dollars? Three thousand years.

Then point out that's assuming they don't make any more money during that time.

Remember that the difference between a trillion and a billion is basically a trillion as well. Really puts it into perspective.

This fight has just started. But maybe, just maybe, today was some kind of turning point.