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In what way do you think building a new but still-uneconomic supersonic plane is going to change the world for the better?
by stouset 2y ago
In what way do you think building a new but still-uneconomic supersonic plane is going to change the world for the better?
- nine_k 2y agoUber and Lyft are largely still unprofitable, but they definitely have changed the landscape, as many would argue, to the better.
- stouset 2y agoThe cost of putting a single car and driver-for-hire on the streets is a handful of dollars, so it's easy to do many of them at a loss. The cost of putting a single instance of a new airplane design of this scale into the air with even a single paying passenger is in the range of billions if not tens-of-billions of dollars. This is not even remotely comparable. But just for comparison, Aérospatiale and BAC actually built a real supersonic plane (Concorde) and managed to fly and operate that plane for decades. It's hard to find much measurable impact on the world at all. What do you propose would be different here, given that the discussion is already presuming a world in which they haven't succeeded economically?
- meiraleal 2y agoUber is not unprofitable, there are so many people that got rich off it, they just max out salaries and compensations.