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Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

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Re: Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

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Add Anthropic and OpenAI to the list. Companies that are bleeding money. Personally, a company should be making money before adding it to the index.

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" But they could just not do anything and continue raking in the money."

Hahaha what a fucking bozo.

Log out and dont talk about valuation again.

Re: Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

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Matt Levine described it well ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-05-21/spa... ) > The deal, with SpaceX, is that Elon Musk runs it however he wants, and he does weird stuff, and you have to trust him, and if you don’t like it you can’t complain. > When SpaceX acquired xAI a few months ago, did a special committee of independent directors approve the transaction? Did Musk recuse himself from negotiat…

Isn't that how Facebook is ran too? Basically Zuckerberg's private company, that in theory is public?

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Re: Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

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There is a market for an S&P 500 ETF without those companies. I'll immediately switch over

Let me know if you find one! I'm at a loss. (And even then, if I switch I have to pay $$$ taxes on capital gains)

Any of the direct indexing providers will let you blacklist individual stocks from the index. The intended use is to exclude stocks you hold elsewhere (or receive as stock grants) to avoid causing wash sales, but it can also be easily used to make a custom "S&P 499".

Re: Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

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It's really concerning given how the indexes are changing rules to fast-track SpaceX being forced into index funds. S&P is also working on updates to S&P 500 to force it down everyone's throats quickly and algorithmically.

Add Anthropic and OpenAI to the list. Companies that are bleeding money. Personally, a company should be making money before adding it to the index.

Interestingly, these are the exact rules they're working to overturn: currently, no matter how many stupid accounting tricks you pull off, you need to actually be profitable to be included in the S&P 500.

Re: Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

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Add Anthropic and OpenAI to the list. Companies that are bleeding money. Personally, a company should be making money before adding it to the index.

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Didn't we have a story just yesterday that Anthropic's run-rate now looks like $49 billion/ year and they might have their first quarterly profit? I would suggest if you have billions of dollars coming in the door and aren't breaking even, maybe you do have a small leak somewhere?

Re: Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

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Add Anthropic and OpenAI to the list. Companies that are bleeding money. Personally, a company should be making money before adding it to the index.

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Because they're doing the fancy equivalent of selling $20 bills for $15 and chirping about how high their revenue is. You, me, and everyone else could generate $inf revenue with that strategy, but that doesn't make it a viable business model.

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> Because from where I'm sitting it seems like you're just operating on hopes and feels. I hate these flippant comments. Similarly, from where I'm sitting it seems you're struggling to disentangle revenue from profit.

I buy 50 billion of hardware. Make 45 billion back in year 1. My losses are 5 billion. I Pay of all my creditors by year two. Then spend another 55 billion on hardware in the second half of year two. My profit is at this point zero.

By year three I am printing money.

It's not a flippant comment. It's basic math.

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Imagine not wanting to own a piece of the first company to make a re-usable orbital class booster.

> Imagine not wanting to own a piece of the first company to make a re-usable orbital class booster. They didn't say they didn't want to own it, they said they wanted to own it at a : "90% discount after the IPO and the next tech / AI correction." It is possible for a company to be both technically impressive and horrifically overvalued.

I think it's undervalued.

Re: Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

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Matt Levine described it well ( https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-05-21/spa... ) > The deal, with SpaceX, is that Elon Musk runs it however he wants, and he does weird stuff, and you have to trust him, and if you don’t like it you can’t complain. > When SpaceX acquired xAI a few months ago, did a special committee of independent directors approve the transaction? Did Musk recuse himself from negotiat…

Isn't that how Facebook is ran too? Basically Zuckerberg's private company, that in theory is public?

Right, if Meta had good governance Zuck wouldn't have been allowed to invest so much in Metaverse.
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