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"number go up", they are obsessed with a high score and having more than others playing the same game. It would be sad if it were just that, but the fallout ef
by stuaxo 5y ago
"number go up", they are obsessed with a high score and having more than others playing the same game.
It would be sad if it were just that, but the fallout effects so many.
I like the idea someone had that beyond a certain point you get a big party to say you won capitalism then the rest of the money you earn goes back into society.
- pirate787 5y agoIt is a worthy feature of the system that the winners get to direct the resources. Musk used his winnings to found SpaceX and Tesla and other moonshot companies. The alternative is to redistribute everything to people who have proven only that they mismanage resources.
- arvinsim 5y agoTrickle down economics doesn't work.
- JaimeThompson 5y agoMusk also got a considerable amount of government assistance, assistance that he now says others shouldn't get. I consider such a position to be rather strange.
- InitialLastName 5y agoThe two companies you named exist and are profitable entirely because Musk was able to drive government spending in his direction (launch contracts and subsidies, respectively).