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When someone mentions emeralds you know you can safely ignore them.
by wilg 3y ago
When someone mentions emeralds you know you can safely ignore them.
- mrguyorama 3y agoSo is his dad lying when he openly talks about them owning an emerald mine?
- vuln 3y agoHow much did the emerald mine produce? Who cares what his father says. Would you care if Bill or Steve’s dad was a liar or lied about business deals? No? Okay. Imagine getting “facts” off a family member “setting the record straight” to a tabloid.
- AlbertCory 3y agoThe question is, why are you on about it?
- jrflowers 3y agoI like this game. Now the question is “why are you interested in people posting about emerald mines?”
- AlbertCory 3y agoSo clever to turn it back on me like that! No thanks.
- jrflowers 3y agoBut that is the question now
- wilg 3y agoBecause I’m tired of this dumbass rumor?
- wilg 3y agohttps://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-mine/ https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-min...
- mrguyorama 3y agoSo, his father "owning a share of an emerald mine in an african country" is apparently what consists of not owning an emerald mine? Also love the assertion that your family being wealthy could not possibly have helped you in later life. I would believe that to be mostly true, since Errol himself is not exactly fond of his son, but Elon also called the following "accurate": "Errol said that Elon "once walked the streets of New York with emeralds in his pocket." His brother Kimbal was with him when the two brothers sold two of the gems to Tiffany & Co. for $2,000, according to their father." The idea that $2000 from an african emerald doesn't help in america is laughable. For millions of americans, that would put food on the table, but for elon, that kind of support is why he could drop out of college and participate in the dot com boom to become very wealthy off of paypal. Meanwhile your average american could not drop out of college in the 90s and become very wealthy, simply because they did not have the option of failing and going home if things went south. Having a rich family is a boon, even if they never send you a dime.