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That's the thing... Tesla and SpaceX were revolutionizing electric cars, batteries and launching humanity into the stars. Twitter allows hot takes and racism,
by WrtCdEvrydy 4y ago
That's the thing... Tesla and SpaceX were revolutionizing electric cars, batteries and launching humanity into the stars.
Twitter allows hot takes and racism, not exactly comparable.
- bumby 4y agoAlso: SpaceX and Tesla were heavily subsidized with taxpayer money. To date, something like 98% of SpaceX contracts are govt. I’m not sure about the Boring company but I suspect its business model is heavily dependent on taxpayer funds too. Although he's often held up as a paragon of free market capitalism, it looks like a lot of his business ventures are actually the result of crony capitalism.
- cyanydeez 4y agoAlso, neither were built by musk.
- galdosdi 4y agoEven the challenges in scaling a platform like Twitter to a global scale are gone. They were novel and exciting 10 years ago; today, using cloud services, it's a comp sci 301 assignment.