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It isn't hard for me to believe that he really wants to make our species multiplanetary since I strongly identify with that goal.
by hirundo 3y ago
It isn't hard for me to believe that he really wants to make our species multiplanetary since I strongly identify with that goal.
- NickC25 3y agoYeah, but if that was the case, and he REALLY wanted to make sure we got off this rock, he could use his hundreds of billions to pursue that goal, not spend tens of billions on fucking Twitter and then run it into the ground. He'd be off giving massive donations to every major STEM program in the country and letting the engineers do engineering work. Instead, he bought a social media platform and spends his time (illegally) firing people who don't want to "grind" and sharing stupid memes and dumb ideas as if he's a 14-year-old edgelord discovering internet anonymity for the first time.
- jfengel 3y agoIt seems he very, very much wants to be remembered. I think his interest in colonizing Mars has less to do with "being an interplanetary species" and more to do with being able to name Mars after himself. Similarly, he wanted to run Twitter since that would let him singlehandedly control what literally everybody is talking about. He quickly discovered that he can't actually do that without killing it, so he's turning it over to somebody else. He doesn't want to be Bill Gates, who really is doing something closer to what you suggest. He wants to be Christopher Columbus crossed with Julius Caesar. That's why he grinds. He wants to be the most important person in the world -- and to remain so for centuries after he's dead. I suppose that's understandable, even though I find it repugnant.