@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca also a myth. He's always been awful. The fall of apartheid is why he grabbed bags of cash in 1988 and illegally emigrated to America via Canada to launder it in tech. He was so incompetent and unstable he was almost immediately kicked out of PayPal (truly awful person, which surely is why Thiel loved him so much although even Thiel created distance after Musk nearly killed him). Unlike the company he stole his ideas from, however, Musk made money on paper. And that's it. He's always been this bad. Just rich his whole life and unaccountable, so people somehow give him another chance and he fails upward.