There is an economic arrangement in which whoever cannot pay to survive is told, “Die, then.” We live in it. The world minted its first trillionaire in June 2026, when SpaceX went public and Elon Musk’s net worth passed $1 trillion. That is a quarter of what the bottom half of America (66 million households) owns combined,1 and the entire wealth of five million median families. This is what a trillion looks like. ▼ each speck is one million dollars (the median family owns a fifth of one) $10 billion $20 billion $30 billion $40 billion $50 billion $60 billion...