The Insane True Story of Elon Musk

Elon Musk's net worth is $850 billion, making him the richest person who has ever lived, adjusted for everything.

Elon Musk's maternal grandfather, Joshua Norman Haldeman, was born in 1902 in Minnesota.

In the early 1930s, Joshua Norman Haldeman became a true believer in a movement called Technocracy Incorporated, which promoted a political system run by engineers and scientists instead of democracy.

Technocracy Incorporated was banned entirely in Canada following the start of World War II.

Joshua Norman Haldeman was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the charge of being a member of an illegal organization a few weeks after Technocracy was made illegal.

Joshua Norman Haldeman advocated for drafting every man and woman between the age of 16 and 60 into the military through his movement called the Total War and Defense Party.

In 1950, Joshua Norman Haldeman and his wife moved 6,000 miles away to Pretoria, South Africa, leaving behind one of Canada's largest chiropractic practices, a huge mansion, and a private airplane.

Joshua Norman Haldeman wrote an article in Saskatchewan describing black South Africans as very primitive people who must not be taken seriously and stated that the present government of South Africa knew how to handle the native question.

Joshua Norman Haldeman directly stated that the South African government's racial policies had encouraged him to come to South Africa in the first place.

Elon Musk's son-in-law, Elon Musk, stated that Joshua Norman Haldeman and his wife were fanatically in favor of apartheid and used to support Hitler.

Elon Musk was born in Pretoria in 1971 and grew up very rich, with his father, Elon Musk, owning two homes, a yacht, a plane, five luxury cars, and a truck by the time Elon was 8 years old.

Elon Musk's mother told stories about her ex-husband, Elon Musk, punching her while driving with 5-year-old Elon in the car.

In 1998, Elon Musk shot and killed three people who were allegedly robbing his home in Johannesburg.

Elon Musk sold a video game he made to a local computer magazine for $500 while he was in 10th grade.

The South African government in the 1980s enacted mandatory conscription, forcing all young men into two years of military service, often deployed into black townships to enforce state-mandated racial violence.

Elon Musk left South Africa at 17 to avoid conscription into the military, stating he didn't want to spend years oppressing black people.

By 2008, Tesla had brought the Roadster to market, which became the first highway-legal all-electric production car, but its production problems meant it cost $120,000 to make each one while selling for less than $80,000.

In 2016, SpaceX set its sights on a Mars mission by 2022.

Elon Musk is the single largest welfare recipient in American history.

Instead, he's worth $200 million.

In their telling, they started off with a budget of $10,000 in savings.