The most expensive painting ever sold
$450M
Leonardo's Salvator Mundi, hammered down at Christie's in November 2017 — still the record for any artwork at auction.
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Give Away Elon's Money
In June 2026 Elon Musk became the first person on Earth to be worth a trillion dollars. So here is a trillion dollars. Your job is to get rid of it.
Every price below is a real, published number with a link to where it came from. This is not a scoreboard for anyone's politics and nobody here owes anybody anything — it is a ruler. Most people, including me, have no working intuition for what a trillion dollars is. Spend it and find out. Run out, and you'll be offered somebody else's money.
Tier one
Pocket change
Start with the things money is famous for buying. Watch the counter at the top while you do it.
The most expensive car ever sold
$142M
The 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé went for €135 million in a private RM Sotheby’s sale in 2022 — roughly $142 million.
The largest superyacht ever built
$600M
Azzam is 180 metres of custom steel and aluminium; the build is generally reported at around $600 million.
The richest contract in sports
$700M
Shohei Ohtani’s ten-year, $700 million deal with the Dodgers — the largest contract in sports history, most of it deferred into the 2030s. You are covering the whole thing today.
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