At the time the South African Rand was kept somewhat pegged to the US Dollar, and has an average value of R2/$.
Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold
by adamsmith143 on Friday May 13, 2022 @10:39AM
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Why would anything right now be relevant to Elon growing up 40 years ago?
> and how much it had been worth at the time
Why assume that the safe was full of South African currency?
> a fair bit of research on what currency that safe would have been full of
I'm sure many HN regulars have homes costing much more than a safe full of $13 notes.
I wouldn't be too confident that "We had so much money at times we couldn't even close our safe." is an amount of money that would actually make someone particularly wealthy by American standards without doing a fair bit of research on what currency that safe would have been full of and how much it had been worth at the time.