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The Hyperloop’s Only Destination Is a Capitalist Hellscape

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Re: The Hyperloop’s Only Destination Is a Capitalist Hellscape

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I read the entire article just to find its underlying foundation rearing its ugly head near its end: > Maybe we’ll even have a line in the U.S. that Wall Street execs and DC lobbyists will use to blast up and down the Eastern Seaboard for business lunches. But you and me? We’ll be stuck on dilapidated Amtrak lines[...] > our only consolation the fact that the hyperloop’s vacuum-sealed tubes don’t have windows, so its…

Based on this article's argument cars, planes and paintings are a travesty.

Re: The Hyperloop’s Only Destination Is a Capitalist Hellscape

#22

I read the entire article just to find its underlying foundation rearing its ugly head near its end: > Maybe we’ll even have a line in the U.S. that Wall Street execs and DC lobbyists will use to blast up and down the Eastern Seaboard for business lunches. But you and me? We’ll be stuck on dilapidated Amtrak lines[...] > our only consolation the fact that the hyperloop’s vacuum-sealed tubes don’t have windows, so its…

When do you anticipate electric vehicles will become mainstream in your country?

Re: The Hyperloop’s Only Destination Is a Capitalist Hellscape

#23
post #4

Is public money going toward this? If not, why do you care how a private individual uses their money?

So, for one, the public definitely has an interest in how you spend your money. That's why it's illegal to buy things like people.

Two, public money is private money. That's what taxes are.

Re: The Hyperloop’s Only Destination Is a Capitalist Hellscape

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post #4

Is public money going toward this? If not, why do you care how a private individual uses their money?

yes there already is public money going towards this, see the contract the boring company has with the Las Vegas convention authority, a public body, and whoops of course it's already a mess.[1]

This is infrastructure, if this ever is going to be a business it's going to be public money, it's not like someone builts a hyperloop on their cow farm.

[1]https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/16/elon-musks-las-vegas-loop-...

Re: The Hyperloop’s Only Destination Is a Capitalist Hellscape

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post #4

Is public money going toward this? If not, why do you care how a private individual uses their money?

Personally, I care because it diverts attention and thrust from developing proven alternatives to air travel, such as HSR. When something that big hinges on a narrow swing in public opinion, and someone starts dangling a pie in the sky idea, the result can be abandonment of the main idea, at the service of an unlikely moonshot by a big ego.

Here is an excellent article that discusses this (surprisingly old) phenomena

http://www.cat-bus.com/2017/12/gadgetbahn/

Re: The Hyperloop’s Only Destination Is a Capitalist Hellscape

#26

I read the entire article just to find its underlying foundation rearing its ugly head near its end: > Maybe we’ll even have a line in the U.S. that Wall Street execs and DC lobbyists will use to blast up and down the Eastern Seaboard for business lunches. But you and me? We’ll be stuck on dilapidated Amtrak lines[...] > our only consolation the fact that the hyperloop’s vacuum-sealed tubes don’t have windows, so its…

When do you anticipate electric vehicles will become mainstream in your country?

Electric buses are mainstream in china.

Re: The Hyperloop’s Only Destination Is a Capitalist Hellscape

#28

> The company celebrated the achievement by releasing a modest video comparing it to, among other things, the moment the Wright Brothers flew the first planes. Just so everyone knows, the Wright Brothers became well-known in the aviation community based on their work developing and flying gliders and inventing the 3-axis control system. Once they actually started flying powered airplanes, they became secretive and ev…

Not only that, if I recall correctly the Wright brothers actually died penniless. They tried patenting and protecting their flight controls idea which is to rotate the wings. It was impractical and inefficient so never really got anywhere. It wasn't until Germany creating a mature aileron system which really pushed flight technology forward (the pressure of War and military helps a lot too).
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