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The difference might be they were also heads of million dollar companies. How many of those have you or I started?
You wouldn't know.
Wouldn't we? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19394730
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#342I love watching all of Musk's projects, as every single one can be connected to Mars colonization. 1. Electric cars for transport, Check. 2. Solar panels and batteries for power generation and storage, check. 3. Tunnel digging equipment for making underground bases and transport, check. 4. Satellite communications for an entire planet, check. 5. Then finally, the actual rockets to get us there. Hopefully he will cont…
I see this point get made often, but I'm not sure it is an insightful way to look at the world. Tesla cars are only barely related to Mars colonization, and PayPal is not really at all, which is a product conveniently ignored in your post. Even the SpaceX internet satellite constellation looks almost nothing like what internet access on Mars will be anytime in the forseeable future. It seems like a similarly strong a…
I'm not sure that PayPal is targeted at making the world better today.
on edit: changed I'm not sure if to I'm not sure that
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Although I appreciate the sentiment, I actually think this is impossible. Some people are going to be inherently extremely ambitious. Those people will compete/cooperate and somebody's going to come out on top. Supposing you establish a system explicitly designed to stop this from happening, you need someone to enforce that system. Congratulations, you just created a role for the ambitious people to fight over.
There will always be people in power. But maybe it is better if those people are elected, and operate in view of the public
That is a bold claim, for which you will need some pretty solid evidence.
An election is basically a popularity contest. Winning a popularity contests does not guarantee competence, reliability or even correctness of opinion.
We've got a couple of centuries of evidence that private individuals who stand to feel the effects of their choices are much better at conserving and rationing resources than elected officials.
If you make a list of the horrors of history and rank them from worst to mildest, you'll find that public officials (even in democracies) are much scarier than rich people operating private concerns.
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#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
There will always be people in power. But maybe it is better if those people are elected, and operate in view of the public
That is a bold claim, for which you will need some pretty solid evidence. An election is basically a popularity contest. Winning a popularity contests does not guarantee competence, reliability or even correctness of opinion. We've got a couple of centuries of evidence that private individuals who stand to feel the effects of their choices are much better at conserving and rationing resources than elected officials.…
Sorry I don't quite understand. Are you seriously saying democracy is a bad idea and that you would like to live in an oligarchy?
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#346I love watching all of Musk's projects, as every single one can be connected to Mars colonization. 1. Electric cars for transport, Check. 2. Solar panels and batteries for power generation and storage, check. 3. Tunnel digging equipment for making underground bases and transport, check. 4. Satellite communications for an entire planet, check. 5. Then finally, the actual rockets to get us there. Hopefully he will cont…
The goal of Mars to me is silly. Mars is already worse off in terms of climate than Earth. Why not work to improve what we have? The only appeal I see is "uncharted territory" / wild west
Asteroid?
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#347I believe those are called subways, we had them in Europe in the late 19th century. /s
Re: The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mover” for Las Vegas
#348I love watching all of Musk's projects, as every single one can be connected to Mars colonization. 1. Electric cars for transport, Check. 2. Solar panels and batteries for power generation and storage, check. 3. Tunnel digging equipment for making underground bases and transport, check. 4. Satellite communications for an entire planet, check. 5. Then finally, the actual rockets to get us there. Hopefully he will cont…
Anything civilization-related is relevant to recreating civilization.
TBF he is targeting infrastructure. There's also: water, food, police, courts, legislature/executive, construction, clothing, computation, etc.
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is a bold claim, for which you will need some pretty solid evidence. An election is basically a popularity contest. Winning a popularity contests does not guarantee competence, reliability or even correctness of opinion. We've got a couple of centuries of evidence that private individuals who stand to feel the effects of their choices are much better at conserving and rationing resources than elected officials.…
Sorry I don't quite understand. Are you seriously saying democracy is a bad idea and that you would like to live in an oligarchy?
Private property and decentralisation are good ideas.
50%+1 liking the way someone talks doesn't mean that the person is fit to manage the whole economy for four years.
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It so happens, that the Sun's expansion will eventually consume most of the planets in the galaxy; of course, it will also be so cold long before that point humans won't be alive.
> It so happens, that the Sun's expansion will eventually consume most of the planets in the galaxy; of course, it will also be so cold long before that point humans won't be alive. In the galaxy or solar system?
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