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Why Is Elon Musk Invited to Speak at AI Startup School?

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Re: Why Is Elon Musk Invited to Speak at AI Startup School?

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Y Combinator is a business organization, which needs to smoothly interact with a wide variety of VIP's, organizations, and more-ordinary people in order to function. Being an individual - you're free to boycott this site, donate 25% of your income to anti-Musk Democrats, take a job with a competitor to Tesla or SpaceX, and otherwise demonstrate your commitment to a far stricter moral code.

As an individual, the moral thing to do would be to loudly and aggressively disrupt the event.

Re: Why Is Elon Musk Invited to Speak at AI Startup School?

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post #9

Y Combinator is a business organization, which needs to smoothly interact with a wide variety of VIP's, organizations, and more-ordinary people in order to function. Being an individual - you're free to boycott this site, donate 25% of your income to anti-Musk Democrats, take a job with a competitor to Tesla or SpaceX, and otherwise demonstrate your commitment to a far stricter moral code.

> needs to smoothly interact with a wide variety of VIP's

Not needs to, chooses to do so. If the entire business world decided to shutout these sorts of people they would cease to have any influence, power, or wealth, improving the quality of life for the entire human race.

As as society we've been putting wealth, greed, and power above all else for a very long time, and this is the end result. We can do better, if we simply choose to.

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