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Well right now the highest value note in south Africa is worth about $13. I'm sure many HN regulars have homes costing much more than a safe full of $13 notes.

by nullc 4y ago

Well right now the highest value note in south Africa is worth about $13. 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.

adamsmith143 4y ago
Why would anything right now be relevant to Elon growing up 40 years ago?
- nullc 4y ago
  > and how much it had been worth at the time
webmaven 4y ago
Why assume that the safe was full of South African currency?
- nullc 4y ago
  > a fair bit of research on what currency that safe would have been full of
  - webmaven 4y ago
    There are too many unknowns: the currency, the denominations, the size of the safe. There is little point in speculating whether it was (or was not) a life-changing sum.
_djo_ 4y ago
At the time the South African Rand was kept somewhat pegged to the US Dollar, and has an average value of R2/$.