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As far as I can tell, this will be financed by private money. Can you elaborate?
by Palmik 2y ago
As far as I can tell, this will be financed by private money. Can you elaborate?
- belter 2y agoYour tax dollars are the customer.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoTax breaks, government forced to become a customer etc. the usual. Just like the astronauts to Mars thing will just shovel your money that might have gone to NASA into Musk's pocket.
- beezlewax 2y agoThe Mars walk is just 3 years away baby!
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoThe best part about this answer is it's always true.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoRelated: GenAI, Cold fusion
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoYup, and FSD.
- fbfactchecker 2y ago3 months maybe, 6 months definitely.
- vtashkov 2y agoTax breaks, i.e. my money not being in your pocket means that they are stolen?
- matwood 2y agoAssuming the tax money has to come from somewhere at some point, those who pay taxes have to make up the shortfall from those who have tax breaks. So far the US just kicks that can down the road so...
- vtashkov 2y agoThat is a big assumption. Tax money need not be a constant. But for the sake of following the same logic: if companies pay bigger taxes, they also have to make up the shortfall. Actually, this last one is much more accurate statement. Companies do not pay taxes, PEOPLE pay taxes. So taxes are paid either by the employees, the clients or by the owners (which in case of the big tech are generally common people). With high taxation you are hurting: the customers, the workers and the middle class saving for their retirement. Who is winning the tax money: state bureaucracy, corrupt politicians and the business around them, people who live like parasites (or rather are forced to live like that, because they are electoral power).
- mattlutze 2y agoTax breaks, i.e. a company extracting wealth from a community without paying into the systems that keep all the parts of that community running, forcing the community to ultimate subsidize that business's weath extraction from them.
- _uxvx 2y agoCompanies do not extract value, they create value which is then transferred to the people via the market through voluntary exchange (ideally). Where have you learned about those things? Oh, yeah, “community” , i.e. Marx.
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- lupire 2y agoWhat do you think NASA does with the money? Is doesn't build a NASA house for its NASA babies.
- miki123211 2y ago> the usual. Just like the astronauts to Mars thing will just shovel your money that might have gone to NASA into Musk's pocket. The difference is that Musk can do twice as much for 1/10 what Nasa thinks the program will cost, which is never what the program will actually cost, and Musk will do it in half that time to boot. The guy is an unhinged manchild, but if what you care about is having your money well spend and getting to Mars as cheaply as possible, he's exactly who you're looking for.
- Filligree 2y agoI think you meant to type SpaceX. Which works as well as it does partly because Musk is kept at a careful length from the controls...
- terrabiped 2y agoDo you have inside knowledge or a reputable source that he is kept at a distance from the controls? How much control does he have as the CEO?
- fallingknife 2y agoI'm sure you are claiming that the founder, CEO, and controlling shareholder is "kept a careful length from the controls" because you have detailed first hand knowledge of the internal operations of Space, right?
- aylmao 2y ago> if what you care about is having your money well spend and getting to Mars as cheaply as possible, he's exactly who you're looking for. I do find impressive that SpaceX engineers figured out reusable rockets and now we can send things more cheaply out to orbit. But in all seriousness, should we care about getting to Mars cheaply? Or do people care because Musk came along to convince them (and the US government) to invest in this venture of his?