Elon Musk came from a family that owned an emerald mine in Apartheid South Africa. Bill Gates’ mom helped Microsoft get a deal with IBM. Jeff Bezos’ garage-based start was funded by a quarter-million dollar investment from his parents. “Self-made billionaires” are a myth.

Sep 20, 2022 · 7:01 PM UTC

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You both an idiot and a liar
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Elon was NOT rich growing up. Their mother abandoned their entire life and moved to Canada. Get it right.
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Hunter Biden made $30 million dollars because his dad is a corrupt politician
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Elon's family fled the country. The Gates thing literally just refers to an up-middle class woman helping her genius son close a deal for his company that ALREADY EXISTED. You a hater, son.
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I know Jeff. I went to school with him. His parents literally took out a mortgage on their modest home in Kendall, to make this investment. And it wasn’t a gift, they made billions on it. They didn’t just give him money on a whim. They looked at the business plan. And it was good
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Wrong
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Perhaps you should do some research before making up lies about @elonmusk. Here is a long detailed thread and a well written article by a journalist who actually interviewed Elon.
Johnna
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14 May 2022
Elon Musk never owned an emerald mine. His father told the media a story abt a mine he partially owned which is what started the rumor. His father also abused his mother who left him & lived in poverty raising 3 kids. This article is more accurate savingjournalism.substack.co…
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Didn't @elonmusk literally live in the factory? What factory you live in buddy?
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You know the South African apartheid emerald mine is a lie yet you choose to tell it to trigger your supporters. Using your platform to spread lies about ppl is never right
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Robert: I am gonna give you a quarter million USD (no questions asked!), in 3 years time you are gonna create a company like AMAZON or TESLA! If you can do that, I am gonna apologize and you’ll keep 250K as your lunch $$. If NOT, you are gonna delete this stupid twitter account
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Robert Reich is a loser. You can will yourself to success with years of hard work. If you believe that this is true, it will be for you. Believe what Reich is saying and you'll be a loser.
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Poor guy says wut?
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As a person who experienced bullying, why are you targeting Elon? Perhaps you don't want to notice or simply don't admit to others, but you have turned into an abuser, mocking a worthy person who protects the interests of all mankind. Your lies about him are disgusting!
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I don’t think you know much about Elon Musk’s story. None of that emerald mine money helped Elon Musk. Also, innovation doesn’t just magically appear with money. If that was true Saudi Arabia would be the most technologically advanced society.
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So what you're saying is that families are important? How conservative of you!
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What is required to be considered "self-made"?
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Becoming a billionaire with $250k to start is practically self-made imo. Many ppl can take out a loan of that size.
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The information in this tweet is a myth
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I must say that taking a $250k investment and turning it into $200bn fortune is pretty impressive as that’s making $800k per every $1 invested.. you should try if you think that’s a piece of cake
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Your every utterance oozes envy
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You have never created anything in your life. You just take a fat salary and criticize. You waste more resources than you create.
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So what’s stopping everyone who has $250k from becoming a billionaire?
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How about self made millionaires, Mr. Millionaire Reich?
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Aren't you one of the guys who causes college students to go into massive debt so that you can make more than the average CEO?
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Now a very serious question: When did Musk first start Spreading this lie of coming to Canada with $2,000 and sustained himself! That’s a lie! He never knew what it means to really be an immigrant! He was pampered by his uncle when he came to Canada! What a disgusting hypocrite?
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Ending with billions after starting out with less than a million counts as "making".
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And Reich is brilliant, articulate, empathetic and politically powerful.
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You're focused on the wrong "unfair" advantage. They were born genetically gifted with very high IQ and incredible work ethic. Also they didn't take their wealth from others, they created it. It's not a zero sum game. Leave your classroom and do likewise 👍🏼
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3’ Reich is saying that you can’t be “self made” if you ever had an investor, help of any kind and/or you didn’t actually manufacture every component of every product you ever sold with your own bare hands.
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haha it's so much worse than that, even. In-Q-Tel/CIA. DARPA, ARPA, Y-combinator, Technocracy, State Department, Planned Parenthood, etc. Those people are assets, not entrepreneurs.
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Problem is you said “Know the truth.” But you lied in your video. We aren’t going to come to you for truths.
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You're a pathological liar. 👇
vincent
@SPCX100T
21 Sep 2022
Elon Musk Was Raised in Hardship & Became a Self-Made Billionaire without the Help of Wealthy Parents tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmania…
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So adjusted for inflation how much do you charge now for public speaking events Robert? Just asking for a friend aei.org/carpe-diem/robert-re…
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Imagine paying for Twitter Blue so you can upload longer videos and you put this crap online.
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Classic Loserthink cc @ScottAdamsSays
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