[93po]

> He’s riding on the coattails of his family’s mining business with a suspect ethical history.

There is no good source for how much money Elon got from his family, but it's fair to assume it was probably 7 digits. Turning a few million dollars into being the most wealthy man on the planet is riding his family's coattails? He founded Zip2 in 1995 with $200k in funding and sold it for $300 million in 1999. Even if he had millions of dollars to start with, he made more for himself than his family ever did by the age of 28.

[freemrkt8]

He’s certainly made people believe he’s rich!

But making a lot of money in a market that’s organically interested in tech the last few decades still does not make Musk literally the most valuable person alive except when measuring in politically correct fiat currency terms.

He’s literally one man in a society with a history of teaching idle idolatry.