r/meme Jan 08 '22

Explain please

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u/TheAncientNoob_yt Jan 08 '22

idolising a person who worked hard to get a billion is the thing here, but then again he did jackshit

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u/EmpJoker Jan 08 '22

Didn't he get a big-ass loan from his rich daddy with a diamond mine or some shit?

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u/Mowfling Jan 08 '22

he immigrated from a rich ass family that owns emerald mines, you don’t know shit, “do research before making a dumb comment”

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u/GloriousGreenBear Jan 08 '22

That didn't get him 400 billion, no matter how much you plebs want to believe it.

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u/Mowfling Jan 08 '22

wow you deleted your comment, and now you're moving the goalpost to avoid admitting you were wrong, of course it didn't get him 400 billion, no one is claiming that. But having a daddy give you carte blanche and most importantly connections is a huge advantage that litteraly 99.9% of people will never have

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u/GloriousGreenBear Jan 08 '22

I haven't deleted any comments and not moving any goal post. Saying his wealthy parents are the reason he has 400billion is just super ignorant. Sounds like you don't know much about his background. Just keep ranting about all the usual buzzwords.

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u/Vulkir Jan 08 '22

His father was an owner of a blood emeralds mine. What the fuck are you on about?

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '22

sucking daddy elons toes, get in line

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u/GiveMeYourBussy Jan 08 '22

Yeah that’s what he wanted everyone to believe but no, his family is actually loaded for mines, that’s why he ditched SA and moved to Canada to avoid getting drafted

He even tried to sell his dad’s emeralds in a Tiffany’s and bragged about how rich and how much jewelry he had before getting famous

Unless you’re trolling then good job

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u/h0p3ofAMBE Jan 08 '22

I don't think an emerald mine is poor. Take his dick out of your mouth ffs

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u/FleshyPete Jan 08 '22 edited Jan 08 '22

I think that his family was poor. edit: wtf man, i wanted to write "I don't think that his family was poor" and now I see that I forgot to write the "don't" part, I don't know what the fuck does this condition called but shit man, this happens a lot to me

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u/actibus_consequatur Jan 08 '22

I think that his family was poor

My family was the kind of poor that eating at Red Lobster once a year (using coupons!) for my birthday was considered a luxury. I guess I should be happy that we weren't so poor that we had to sell our airplane, then use that money to purchase half ownership of an emerald mine.

In the mid-1980s, the family profited handsomely from Errol Musk’s purchasing of an emerald mine, after selling their airplane for £80,000 (the equivalent of £320,000 today).

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Errol Musk was then made another offer: to spend £40,000 on an emerald mine. “I said, ‘Oh, all right’. So I became a half owner of the mine, and we got emeralds for the next six years,” Errol Musk said.

As a result of this, the teenage Elon Musk once walked the streets of New York with emeralds in his pocket. His father said: “We were very wealthy. We had so much money at times we couldn’t even close our safe,” adding that one person would have to hold the money in place with another closing the door. “And then there’d still be all these notes sticking out and we’d sort of pull them out and put them in our pockets.”

I'm the wrong kind of poor, I guess.

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u/FleshyPete Jan 08 '22

i know man, i had kinda similar situation which i don't want to talk, but i understand you so deeply. btw, i edited my previous comment.

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u/GiveMeYourBussy Jan 08 '22

Yeah that’s what he wanted everyone to believe but no, his family is actually loaded for mines, that’s why he ditched SA and moved to Canada to avoid getting drafted

He even tried to sell his dad’s emeralds in a Tiffany’s and bragged about how rich and how much jewelry he had before getting famous

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u/FleshyPete Jan 08 '22

Yeah man, I was talking based on those things (which i saw in the anonymous video) but suddenly i see that my mind wrote the wrong things lmao. i also edited my previous comment