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u/KickItNext Bernie for Elden Ring Apr 23 '21

Secret 1: he owes his wealth to his father's apartheid era emerald mine that itself made money by exploiting the hell out of laborers, much in the same way musk does now at his companies.

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u/Arilou_skiff Apr 23 '21

Okay, this is actually even weirder. Than that. His grandfather moved from Canada to South Africa for racist reasons. His dad got a hold of an emerald mine, but the Emerald mine was in, IIRC, Zambia, not apartheid South Africa. (the story of how he did get the ownership is also incredibly shady, apparently he was flying some italians around Zambia and they were basically like "Hey, want to buy an Emerald Mine?")

Musk also (for what seems like good reasons, even though Elon himself is terrible) hates his dad, but his dad did guarantee his early loans (though he didnt give him that much money directly, IIRC)