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Elon Musk's $50K TX house is a humble prefab home that can be towed by a Model X
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has mentioned that he now lives in a ~$50K house at Starbase, Texas, where his private space company, SpaceX, is manufacturing its Starships. Based on images of the home, it appears that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is indeed living modestly in a prefabricated housing unit that's only about 400 square feet.
Teslarati recently received a tip noting that Elon Musk's housing unit in Starbase, Texas is a Boxabl Casita, a foldable, prefabricated home designed for quick installations and maximum affordability. A 20×20 unit such as the one that Elon Musk reportedly owns is priced at only $50,000, less than the cost of a Model Y Long Range Dual Motor AWD. The Boxabl Casita is durable, too, being made of concrete panels and steel. It could be installed very quickly and transported easily, as well, with the home being light enough to be pulled by a vehicle like a Model X.
[...] The Boxabl Casita is designed to be customizable with different finishes and configurations. Yet a look at Elon Musk's apparent housing unit in Starbase shows that the CEO only opted for a base unit. Musk did mention that he has installed improvements to the home that would probably make it worth about $69,000 today, but even such an amount is less than the cost of a base Tesla Model S. The Casita is classic Elon Musk in the way that it's different and practical, though the idea that the 20×20 unit may be home to the world's third-richest person is very compelling. People with a net worth of $172 billion, after all, typically live in lavish properties.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by negrace on Thursday June 24 2021, @12:59PM (3 children)
It is hilarious how many people here are buying this story.
Musk cares a lot about his public image, and he releases at least 1 story per week to pump his image/his companies.
His employees confessed they have plans like 6 months ahead when they are going to release which story.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @01:15PM
No no, somehow you’ve confused the Musk article you read with the Scarlett Johansson article
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 24 2021, @04:07PM (1 child)
Yes, many people are taking the story at face value.
However, pumping up and maintaining Musk's image is not superfluous. That image helps him garner investment and license to act from government. He is not the first one to do so. In recent memory Steve Jobs did the same and it worked wonders for him and Apple's share price. Musk might have taken that page from Jobs's book.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday June 24 2021, @05:57PM
Yep...we live in the age of Kardashian ...become famous and get rich.
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain