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by somenameforme 929 days ago
On the Musk/Bezos stuff, I think one read of any comments or interviews with Elon's estranged father (who amongst various acts, has fathered a child with his own step-daughter) indicates pretty quickly that the guy is a bit off, at best. This [1] is the article Wiki chose to cite to justify the claim that Elon grew up in wealth. Here are the combined comments from his father from the article:

"We went to this guy’s prefab and he opened his safe and there was just stacks of money and he paid me out, £80,000, it was a huge amount of money. He then gave me the opportunity to spend £40,000 on an emerald mine. I said, ‘Oh, all right’. So I became a half owner of the mine, and we got emeralds for the next six years. We were very wealthy. We had so much money at times we couldn’t even close our safe. One person would have to hold the money in place with another closing the door. And then there’d still be all these notes sticking out and we’d sort of pull them out and put them in our pockets."

In a normal world, this is about the time you turn off the recorder and thank the guy for coming in, not citing it as established fact. Of course we don't live in anything like a normal world though.

[1] - https://www.independent.co.uk/space/elon-musk-made-money-ric...