A mercurial white SA boy genius from Pretoria with a violent family history and a penchant for conspiracy theories hurtles his way to become the world’s second most powerful man without being elected to anything. What could go wrong? 

It turns out, quite a bit. The past few weeks have not been kind to Elon Musk...

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