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I think about how we could've paid for two brand new, gigawatt-scale nuclear power plants for the same amount of money as Elon Musk flushed down the toilet to t
by coldpie 7mo ago
I think about how we could've paid for two brand new, gigawatt-scale nuclear power plants for the same amount of money as Elon Musk flushed down the toilet to try to shut down a website he didn't like. Extreme wealth is a mental illness, and wealth caps are healthcare.
- Forgeties79 7mo agoAt this point I wish he had shut it down. Instead he turned into a mouthpiece for the right and duped his followers into thinking he’s “liberated” the site and made it into some bastion of free speech.
- actionfromafar 7mo agoYou can't do that with two gigawatt-scale nuclear power plants!
- bombcar 7mo agoIt's worse when you realize that Musk at least does something with his insane wealth, even if it's also insane. Most either do nothing really of note, or donate it to "causes", which may be good, but kind of boring.
- greesil 7mo agoI can appreciate boring nowadays.
- actionfromafar 7mo agoMusk tried boring for a bit. Don't hear much about it nowadays.
- greesil 7mo agoHar har
- renewiltord 7mo agoHe’s not “doing something with his insane wealth”. He’s wealthy because he’s doing something. The moment he announces he’s stepping back and going to be boring he loses half his wealth or more. God does not come down from the heavens and bestow money that one spends on what one chooses. People value his companies because he’s there. TSLA will instantly collapse in valuation if he exits.
- renewiltord 7mo agoIf you can guarantee two brand new gigawatt scale nuclear power plants for $44b then you can raise that money easily. The problem isn’t the access to money that prevents it. It’s that the the number of NRC approved reactors built since it came into existence is countable on your fingers. I’m not even kidding. If you can pass the regulation, environmental, land permits, local opposition etc. you will be a hundred millionaire maybe a billionaire.
- vablings 7mo ago[flagged]
- renewiltord 7mo ago[flagged]
- dang 7mo agoPlease make your substantive points thoughtfully and don't cross into personal attack on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 7mo agoPlease make your substantive points thoughtfully and don't cross into personal attack on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- vablings 7mo agoI fail to see how British sarcasm qualifies as a personal attack. Specifically in reference to plain English that is the specification of the NRC as cited
- dang 7mo agoI'm a fan of British wit, but these things don't necessarily translate across contexts. On a broad and shallow internet forum like HN, a line like "if you can read and understand plain English how about you go make yourself a couple billion dollars" pattern-matches to boxed wine sarcasm, not ripping port sarcasm.