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Who cares if The Boring Company fails? It looks cool! You know what happens if you don't try? Nothing. You never score for a shot you don't take!
by amorphid 9y ago
Who cares if The Boring Company fails? It looks cool! You know what happens if you don't try? Nothing. You never score for a shot you don't take!
- bfred_it 9y agoBut you can score if you take the right shot. It's about wasting time and money and talent instead of directing it towards "winning" ideas.
- amorphid 9y agoIf you learn how to take the right shot beforehand, let the rest of us know :)
- vertex-four 9y agoIf cities decide that The Boring Company is the way forward and it turns out not to be, that's lost opportunity cost and likely decades of people suffering increasingly poor transport infrastructure leading to more wasted time and less time that people can spend doing important things, like spending time being a productive member of society (not necessarily working a job - things like spending time with family and friends, educating oneself, etc etc, come under this).
- drakonandor 9y agoLearning what strategies don't work well is being a productive member of society.