Elon Musk is one of the richest people on the planet with a net worth estimated to be in the region of $69 billion.<\/p>\n
But the tech innovator who founded PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX says hes thinking about becoming homeless.<\/p>\n
Hes put two of his mansions up for sale, tweeting in May: I am selling almost all physical possessions. Will own no house.<\/p>\n
He added that he would devote his life to Mars and Earth and said he didnt need any more money because possessions just weigh you down.<\/p>\n
Now in a wide-ranging New York Times interview he said: I guess well just rent a place somewhere<\/p>\n
I just have all these houses but nobody is using them, he said.<\/p>\n
I use them infrequently. In the Bay Area, for example from 2002 to 2017, I never owned a house and I was there half the week so I would either sleep at the factory or in a friends spare bedroom or on a couch or in a hotel.<\/p>\n
\"I did that for 15 years.<\/p>\n
Musk joked he could always crash with his fellow billionaires Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google.<\/p>\n
He says he used to enjoy sofa-surfing with his Silicon Valley pals.<\/p>\n
He told the New York Times: It was actually, in retrospect, kind of good because you end up rotating through friends houses and you catch up with them and stay in contact, whereas these days, I have been staying in this strange Gatsby-like house, what I call the haunted mansion, and its a bit bleak, to be totally frank.<\/p>\n
The house itself is beautiful but, you know, its like Wayne Manor without Alfred.<\/p>\n
Musks focus is increasingly on building a self-sustaining city on Mars, which he says will require 1,000 spacecraft launches a year.<\/p>\n
He predicts that the Mars habitat, which will be protected by a huge anti-radiation dome, will have an outdoorsy, fun atmosphere.\"<\/p>\n
He told the Third Row Tesla podcast that there should be a direct democracy on Mars with the inhabitants making decisions for themselves rather than being ruled from Earth.<\/p>\n
Musk also says there ought be simpler laws on Mars than there are on Earth.<\/p>\n
Food for his first Mars city will be grown on solar-powered hydroponic farms, but Musk says he will probably die before the colony is completely self-sustaining but, he says, Id like to at least be around to see a bunch of ships land on Mars.<\/p>\n
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