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I don't think he's visionary. We all want to play with rockets and electric cars. He just happens to have enough money to go out and do it.
by chooseaname 8y ago
I don't think he's visionary. We all want to play with rockets and electric cars. He just happens to have enough money to go out and do it.
- gbear605 8y agoThen why is Musk (and Bezos with Blue Origin) the only ones who have done so? There are a lot of people who have more money than Musk had when he founded SpaceX and Tesla.
- chooseaname 8y agoInterest? Look at Bill Gates. He could certainly build rockets, but he'd rather help people solve other, arguably more important, problems. Or Larry Ellison. He'd rather go race boats and play with swords.
- kitsunesoba 8y agoI’d argue that opening up a new frontier for society’s restless (space) to relieve the pressure that’s been mounting from the lack of any kind of frontier is as important as anything else. If we keep ignoring that pressure it’s eventually going to have massive destabilizing effects… in fact, I think we’re seeing some of that already.
- kgwgk 8y agoJohn Carmack has also burned some money playing with rockets. (And Musk did not really found Tesla.)
- leesec 8y agoI think you are drastically over estimating how many people with his money would go out and start a rocket company and an electric car company and risk losing all of their wealth because of it.