I feel like a lot of the recent headlines are what ridiculous thing is this billionaire

doing.

And it's incredibly disheartening as a working class individual to sit here and watch billionaires

basically play in a sandbox of money while people are starving.

They don't have houses.

Medical care is unaffordable.

I don't think that Elon Musk could single handedly solve any of those problems, but it just

feels incredibly disheartening to watch them throw around money that could make such a difference

for marginalized groups of people.

For most of us, $44 billion is an amount of money we can't even fathom, let alone access

to buy one of the largest social media companies in the world.

That Tesla founder Elon Musk is poised to do just that, and some of you feel put off,

just hearing the numbers.

If the deal between Musk and Twitter pans out, it could be one of the largest deals of

its kind in American history.

But much of the roughly $44 billion Musk needs to buy Twitter isn't hanging out in his

bank account.

So how does someone, even a billionaire, borrow that much money?

We'll get into all that and more after the break.

I'm Jen White, you're listening to the 1A podcast where we get to the heart of the

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