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Imagine if Elon had put all that money to work on mass transit solutions instead of cars for each and every person, along with tunnels for those cars. Of course
by deepvibrations 1y ago
Imagine if Elon had put all that money to work on mass transit solutions instead of cars for each and every person, along with tunnels for those cars. Of course, you will never make the same riches, but interesting to imagine how different the impact might be.
- abcd_f 1y agoNo point in imagining that whatsoever. Just like imagining Bezos paying taxes or Trump not lying.
- lionkor 1y agoOr like imagining people on the internet not make everything about American politics
- wisty 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
- jcattle 1y agoBoth of these companies contributed approximately nothing to the advancement of Mass Transit.
- sgerenser 1y agoArguably the Hyperloop was publicized specifically for the opposite: to stoke opposition to traditional high speed rail, while at the same time knowing it is completely impractical.
- aspenmayer 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_(politics)#Controlled_opposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_(politics)#Controll...
- wisty 1y agoThis is just tiny foil hat thinking though. It seems far more likto me that Elon was just a trifle overconfident in himself.
- wisty 1y agoOK, so Elon has tried to invest a lot of money in mass transit, but wasn't able to get a breakthrough like he did with Tesla?
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- FL33TW00D 1y agoWhy rely on one man?
- presentation 1y agoThe goal is not to rely on one man, but regardless of what you think of him, he has proven to be very effective at bringing big ideas to reality.
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago> very effective at bringing big ideas to reality With specific reference to Mr Musk and commuter rail, this is the opposite of reality. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44297667 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44297667
- kkkqkqkqkqlqlql 1y agoMaybe the OP is taking about some other Musk's ideas brought to reality, like fascism in the US.
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y agoTrue, but I don't regard that as an original Musk idea. It's been done before elsewhere and, to a lesser extent, done before in the US. He's not even the first racist head of a US car company, that was Henry Ford.
- IAmBroom 1y agoAh-hahahahahaha. Good one. This message was not written from my hyperloop commute to Mars.
- presentation 1y agoSure, but who do you know who actually built a functioning rocket launch company privately AND also built a leading EV company when it was unheard of? I agree that he also has stupid, botched ideas, but pretending like he’s incompetent is just cope.