Interestingly enough, I had thought the rumour that his wealth came from an emerald mine his dad owned, but it does seem to be the case that that his dad only claimed to have part stake in an emerald mine, it was apparently in Zambia and not South Africa, and there doesn’t seem to be any credible evidence that Elon received any substantial money via this route or even any evidence of the existence of this mine. I think Snope’s investigation, which corroborates the aforementioned debunking of rumours about Musk, was done pretty well: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/11/17/elon-musk-emerald-mine/

PS: Whether or not Elon Musk is a nepo baby born with a silver spoon in his mouth does not impact whether his propensity to say and do unhinged things and perpetually confabulate about the prospects of his companies. e.g. Thunderf00t’s many videos

I was completely naive to 3D printing 6 months ago, got a Prusa mini, got printing. Pretty simple. Great explainers on the prusa website. Easy installation and intuitive software. I recommend it.