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I guess for the same reason that few of them are building architectural wonders, museums, or really doing anything that isn't totally focused on themselves and
by EA-3167 3y ago
I guess for the same reason that few of them are building architectural wonders, museums, or really doing anything that isn't totally focused on themselves and their wealth. The closest you get is the "give away half of your wealth to foundations you control, as charity" move that's become very popular.
Actually building something for the future, not because it will make you even richer, seems to have fallen out of favor.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoSociety used to get museums, universities, and great works of art out of the ultra wealthy. Besides SpaceX, not sure what other goods there have been from this social contract recently.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoIt's because the guillotine has transitioned from "something my aristocrat grandparents were afraid of" to "ancient history".
- jakey_bakey 3y agoDon't get me wrong, I think what they're doing is very cool, but how exactly has SpaceX created a public good?
- mensetmanusman 3y agoInternet in the rural parts of the world is being revolutionized.
- scottLobster 3y agoDrastically lowering the cost of access to orbit, potentially providing affordable worldwide internet coverage with performance that isn't dogshit, providing competition for terrestrial cable and traditional satellite networking companies. If one day we do end up with colonies on the Moon and/or Mars, historians will point to SpaceX's drastic lowering of the cost of making it to orbit as one of the critical stepping stones that made it happen. Not only does it directly make such things more possible, but it increases the amount of economic activity that can occur in space, which grows the entire industrial ecosystem and indirectly unlocks even more possibilities in the long run.
- yostrovs 3y agoI believe we are close to saturation of how many museums and universities one can have without them feeling empty.