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Citizen Satirist (CS)'s avatar

"estranged from his father (who was a monster/psychopath from everything I have read)" Have not read that - just know he owned an emerald mine in apartheid South Africa and were rich - like the parents of Gates, Bezos and all our other so-called self-made people...

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It's a pretty fascinating (awful) story if you research Musk Sr. Yes, he was rich, but such a psycho that Mrs. Musk grabbed the kids and left for America with absolutely nothing (in terms of riches) to start over in a place where she and the kids could be safe from their father.

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