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Re:Twitter Office Supply Auction by astrange on Saturday December 10, 2022 @03:04PM (#33936265)
Elon is rich because PayPal investors paid him to go away. Nothing that happened in his life before that matters at all or gave him any extra starting privilege, diamond mine or no.
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Re:Twitter Office Supply Auction by runeb on Saturday December 10, 2022 @05:59PM (#33937958)
That is not accurate. Have you seen the video of "multi-millionaire entrepreneur" Elon Musk taking delivery of a $1 million dollar McLaren car, before PayPal?
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Re:Twitter Office Supply Auction by astrange on Saturday December 10, 2022 @07:14PM (#33938509)
Eh, that was from Zip2 for $22 million, right? That's something but it's not PayPal money. I think he just had "average Stanford student" levels of privilege to do that.
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Re:Twitter Office Supply Auction by metadat on Saturday December 10, 2022 @07:21PM (#33938565)
This is warped, average Stanford grad is well off but not supercar level finances.
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Re:Twitter Office Supply Auction by astrange on Saturday December 10, 2022 @09:04PM (#33939267)
The rest is luck.
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Re:Twitter Office Supply Auction by jiveturkey on Sunday December 11, 2022 @02:13AM (#33940924)
Simply being white gave him extra starting privilege. I’m sure you meant, vs other cis white males coming from a middle class (at least) family though.
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