Overview

• In published excerpts, he said CEOs once earned four to six times a worker’s pay and now make roughly 600 times as much.
• He referenced reports that Elon Musk could become the first dollar‑trillionaire and warned that valuing wealth above all else signals a serious societal problem.
• Coverage notes Bloomberg currently pegs Musk’s wealth near $419 billion and that Tesla’s board has proposed a compensation plan of up to $1 trillion that shareholders are slated to vote on in November.
• He said the United Nations has, at least for now, lost the ability to bring people together on multilateral issues and urged greater pressure from various actors to push warring parties toward saying “enough.”
• The interview was conducted in late July by journalist Elise Ann Allen for a forthcoming biography, released by Crux on the pope’s 70th birthday, and includes his reflections on a steep learning curve as the first U.S.-born pontiff.