{"id":17469,"date":"2025-01-26T16:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/how-the-roots-of-the-paypal-mafia-extend-to-apartheid-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:38:03","slug":"how-the-roots-of-the-paypal-mafia-extend-to-apartheid-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/how-the-roots-of-the-paypal-mafia-extend-to-apartheid-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How the roots of the \u2018PayPal mafia\u2019 extend to apartheid South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler<\/p>\n<p>When Elon Musk\u2019s arm shot out in a stiff arm salute at Donald Trump\u2019s inaugural celebrations, startled viewers mostly drew the obvious comparison.<\/p>\n<p>But in the fired-up debate about Musk\u2019s intent that followed, as the world\u2019s richest man insisted he wasn\u2019t trying to be a Nazi, speculation inevitably focused on whether his roots in apartheid-era South Africa offered an insight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/26\/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/01d10e660767815cd5799030b4ff658664343b13\/1_0_2998_1800\/master\/2998.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3ec77933ed74377a63bdf0ccbbfc305e\" title=\"How the roots of the \u2018PayPal mafia\u2019 extend to apartheid South Africa\" \/>Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler<br \/>\nWhen Elon Musk\u2019s arm shot out in a stiff arm salute at Donald Trump\u2019s inaugural celebrations, startled viewers mostly drew the obvious comparison.<br \/>\nBut in the fired-up debate about Musk\u2019s intent that followed, as the world\u2019s richest man insisted he wasn\u2019t trying to be a Nazi, speculation inevitably focused on whether his roots in apartheid-era South Africa offered an insight. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler When Elon Musk\u2019s arm shot out in a stiff arm salute at Donald Trump\u2019s inaugural celebrations, startled viewers mostly drew the obvious comparison. But in the fired-up debate about Musk\u2019s intent that followed, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/how-the-roots-of-the-paypal-mafia-extend-to-apartheid-south-africa\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How the roots of the \u2018PayPal mafia\u2019 extend to apartheid South Africa<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}