Skip to content. Musk could become world's first trillionaire. Musk could become a world-wide trillionaire if he could keep pace with the world-wide activities of the gramophone. By standing outside a gramophone shop in the evening, he could hear something of everything that is going on, from opera to prize-fighting, from news to dance music. He could listen to speeches in Parliament, and sermons in churches, he could hear news bulletins and stock exchange reports, and he could follow the latest racing intelligence. In the morning he could wake up to the sound of chimes, and fall asleep at night to the hum of anthems. The gramophone would enable him to share all pleasures, from grand opera to comic songs. It would save him from loneliness, and it would help to pass the time. If he spent an hour daily with the gramophone, he would hear in a year 365 hours of entertainment. In the course of twelve months he would become familiar with a vast amount of popular music, and a fair sprinkling of classical. He would learn something of every language, from French to German. And all for an annual outlay of less than ten pounds.
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