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Elon Musk to pay for water stations, filtration at all Flint schools
- prolikewh0a 8y agoGood for him doing this, but how about as a country we solve this problem? I thought this was the richest most advanced country on the face of Earth ever? We can't even provide water that doesn't give you cancer or mental disabilities? Come on.
- java-man 8y agoWe house the richest. The most advanced... probably not, not anymore. Japan is far ahead of us in terms of quality of manufacturing, many European countries are far ahead of us in terms of health care and quality of life. We are probably still the most business friendly country though.
- iforgotpassword 8y agoWell, most of the money simply doesn't belong to the right people unfortunately. But that's a problem pretty much anywhere on this planet. Musk might be a nutjob and I'm already seeing the day where he goes completely bonkers, but sometimes that guy just gets shit done where others would talk and talk and talk. I wonder how he'll be remembered in a hundred years.
- village-idiot 8y agoIt reminds me nothing more than the time Domino's fixed potholes. Obviously Musk's actions here are far more impactful than Domino's (which was really just a stunt), but there's something dystopic about companies providing the services that the government can't/won't do.
- rmason 8y agoMichigan legislators under pressure from the auto dealer lobby passed without debate a law at 2 am preventing Tesla from selling cars in the state. Musk's response was to establish Tesla Tool & Die in Grand Rapids hiring over a hundred employees. Now he's helping Flint children receive clean water in their schools. You don't see the auto dealers in the state helping Flint. Currently if you want to buy a Tesla you need to either go to Chicago or Cleveland.
- java-man 8y agois it possible to filter lead using a filter? how good are these filters? wouldn't make more sense to actually fix the root cause, i.e. the pipes?
- village-idiot 8y agoReverse Osmosis systems will remove lead.