uJustsaidit's comments

But we gave the keys to the economy to some vain children who have never had to do real work to make a name for themselves. Straight from uni being librarians assistants to the elders, straight to running the world!

Society is still led by vague mental imagery and promises of forever human prosperity. The engineering is right but no one asks if rockets to Mars are the right output to preserve consciousness. We literally just picked it up because the elders started there and later came to control where the capital goes.

We’re shorting so many other viable experiments to empower same old retailers and rockets to nowhere.

Value assessment in fiat currency is arbitrary.

How many working hours, tons of materials will it take?

Could they be used on more relevant needs to humanity?

If so, why use them on a moonshot we will die before humanity achieves? Essentially approving burning up resources on unverifiable, perhaps unachievable outcomes?

We still fund a lot of agency to iterate on high minded potential as if future humans have an immutable obligation to carry on the work.

Secular norms and justifications are not sacrosanct. The dollar is a made up token of power.

My head canon is various high profile voices goading Elon into buying Twitter was a campaign to put him in a position to fail.

It would give Tesla, SpaceX, governments, financiers ammo to target him if Twitter flames out. There are too many aligned groups of elites who stand to gain through Elons fall (directly or just having him out of the way) to rule out someone, or many someones, have been supporting him in the Twitter drama with their fingers crossed.

Records from the brief legal proceedings are out there now. This is just intuition from rolling in the mega-millionaire social scene, not the billionaires scene. Given how catty the mega-millionaire scene is, I can only imagine how bad the billionaire scene is.

You answered your own question.

It’s an ad to sell the adoption of EVs. Trade groups, press, PR campaigns acting on the behalf of entire industries are a thing.