{"id":3228,"date":"2026-02-05T10:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:18:34","slug":"elon-musk-worlds-richest-man-admits-money-cant-buy-happiness-in-glorious-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk, world\u2019s richest man, admits money can\u2019t buy happiness in glorious tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Elon Musk, world\u2019s richest man, admits money can\u2019t buy happiness in glorious tweet\" width=\"620\" height=\"500\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full object-cover rounded-md\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 620 500'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAACEN3D\/AAAAL0lEQVR42mP4z8DAwMiAARgZGJhY+P\/\/PwMDAwPDfwYGBgaGhgYGhgYGAAD9Hwlr5xRngAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, (max-width: 1100px) 620px, 620px\" src=\"\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.joe.co.uk%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F10%2FCopy-of-thumbnail-1-1.jpg%3Fheight%3D675%26width%3D1200&amp;w=360&amp;q=75 360w, \/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.joe.co.uk%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F10%2FCopy-of-thumbnail-1-1.jpg%3Fheight%3D675%26width%3D1200&amp;w=414&amp;q=75 414w, \/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.joe.co.uk%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F10%2FCopy-of-thumbnail-1-1.jpg%3Fheight%3D675%26width%3D1200&amp;w=640&amp;q=75 640w, \/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.joe.co.uk%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F10%2FCopy-of-thumbnail-1-1.jpg%3Fheight%3D675%26width%3D1200&amp;w=768&amp;q=75 768w, \/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.joe.co.uk%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F10%2FCopy-of-thumbnail-1-1.jpg%3Fheight%3D675%26width%3D1200&amp;w=1024&amp;q=75 1024w, \/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.joe.co.uk%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F10%2FCopy-of-thumbnail-1-1.jpg%3Fheight%3D675%26width%3D1200&amp;w=1280&amp;q=75 1280w, \/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.joe.co.uk%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F10%2FCopy-of-thumbnail-1-1.jpg%3Fheight%3D675%26width%3D1200&amp;w=1536&amp;q=75 1536w\" bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.joe.co.uk\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcms.joe.co.uk%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F10%2FCopy-of-thumbnail-1-1.jpg%3Fheight%3D675%26width%3D1200&amp;w=1536&amp;q=75\"\/><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>Has it finally dawned on him?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, seems to have come to the realisation that admitted money can\u2019t buy happiness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>In a post on X overnight, the billionaire said: \u201cWhoever said \u201cmoney can\u2019t buy happiness\u201d really knew what they were talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>He even finished the tweet with a sad emoji, to emphasise just how deep his revelation was.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Some pointed out to ol\u2019 Elon that if he has come to the realisation that money doesn\u2019t buy happiness, he might as well start giving away some of his unbelievably vast wealth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>One person wrote: \u201cIf we wanted to maximise happiness, wouldn\u2019t this imply that we should redistribute wealth from billionaires, for whom money makes little difference, to poor and sick people, for whom such resources could save lives? Such as in the form of humanitarian aid in poor countries?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Others suggested that this maybe Musk would feel a little jollier if he stopped spewing poisonous hatred out into the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>But many simply found some glorious schadenfraude in seeing Musk admit that, despite all his money and power, he was still just a miserable man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Elon #Musk #worlds #richest #man #admits #money #buy #happiness #glorious #tweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has it finally dawned on him? Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, seems to have come to the realisation that admitted money can\u2019t buy happiness. In a post on X overnight, the billionaire said: \u201cWhoever said \u201cmoney can\u2019t buy happiness\u201d really knew what they were talking about.\u201d He even finished the tweet with a sad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1658,1167,1250,2896,2895,774,17,1251,2220,2897,1252],"class_list":{"0":"post-3228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-admits","9":"tag-buy","10":"tag-elon","11":"tag-glorious","12":"tag-happiness","13":"tag-man","14":"tag-money","15":"tag-musk","16":"tag-richest","17":"tag-tweet","18":"tag-worlds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}