He still does not have a home of his own, but he relies on his friends, says Elon Musk, the richest man in the world.

Elon MuskAnd The richest man in the world said in a recent interview that he has been without a home since the end of last year He sold his last homeHe usually sleeps on his friends’ sofa – He writes Inside Business.

“I don’t have my own apartment at the moment, I literally sleep with friends. (…) When I travel to the Bay Area, where most of Tesla’s engineering is done, I basically swap between friends’ spare bedrooms,” Musk said in a video posted. Monday. To Chris Andersonone of the TED conference leaders.

Musk, whose fortune is estimated at $251 billion (nearly $87 trillion), Bloomberg responded to Anderson’s remark that many people consider wealth accumulation like Musk to be insulting given the inequality of global wealth.

US lawmakers, for example Elizabeth Warren The senator, and big billionaires like him have also criticized his relatively low tax burden, the portal notes.

“It would certainly be difficult to spend billions of dollars a year on personal consumption, but that’s not the case,” Musk said, adding that he doesn’t have his own yacht and doesn’t really go on vacation, even though he’s been known to have a private jet.

“It’s not like my personal consumption is high. I mean, the only exception is the plane, but if I didn’t use the plane, I would have fewer hours to work,” the billionaire said, then admitted that his net worth was “crazy.”

He’s also a leader known for Tesla’s peculiar habits – which he wants to do right now To become the majority owner of Twitter – By the way, according to Insider, this is the first time he has officially confirmed that he does not have a home of his own.