t has to be space because even if you had no NIMBY bullshit to deal with at all
Yeah I think it's 100% entirely appropriate to NOT have massive amounts of unpleasant noise pollution in people's back yards. But it's "bullshit" for peons to not be gobbling up whatever scraps mega corporations throw to them regardless of the costs to themselves.
I'm not talking about "idleness" though.
It is idleness in a sense: nothing you have to do. You can bum around, go skiing etc or art galleries whatever but you don't need to do anything. You have no structure and no obligations. The world's your oyster, but that's not so easy it turns out.
Choosing to "do" more of whatever already made you a billionaire seems crazy.
Maybe, but I think I'm the type to keep farming until the money runs out. Metaphorically. I don't actually farm.
On top of all of that, and this is in the filings, roughly 90% of his stock which is tied up in this trillion dollar valuation is restricted or unvested, based on hitting certain performance objectives. If he walked away tomorrow, roughly 90% of his stock, which is illiquid, he'd forfeit back to the company as they haven't vested yet. For example, much of his SpaceX stock is tied to:
That sounds plausible, but is not what the article says. You only need read 2 paragraphs.
Righty now, Musk owns 42% of SpaceX. He could quit as CEO tomorrow, but stay on the board and still have 82% voting rights.
Once the 180 day lockout ends, Musk could start slowly selling shares in accordance with SEC Rule 144 Restrictions, the same as any insider.
Same as with Tesla.
Any shares "based on hitting certain performance objectives" are in addition, and would dilute the existing shares.
It's like the story about the farmer who won the lottery.
When asked what he'd do he replied "keep farming 'til the money runs out".
I'm not rich enough to never work again, but I've taken long gaps between jobs. Idleness is hard it turns out and I start getting antsy.
Anyone who believes the phrase "No one ever died wishing they spent more time in the office" has never met an academic.
If you want taxes that high, you don't build AI satellites in space
Heat dissipation is going to be more of a problem than taxes when it comes to AI data centres in space.
you don't complete Starship
Only Apollo?
you don't build moon bases
What moon bases?
and we don't get humanity to Mars, apart from some rovers, flags and footprints.
What humans on mars?
We managed to build roads, railroads, bridges, canals, and an entire industrial revolution without an income tax.
A lot of those railroads were built by stealing land from a bunch of people and giving it away to fund the railroads. Oh and a little light genocide on the side. That "resource" is long tapped out, unless you want to bring back large scale government expropriation and genocide again?
If you really understand history, it's clear that most of the 20th century was about squeezing the cultural, economic, and political energy out of the United States for the benefit of the people running big political machines.
Even if this is true (it's not but let's put a pin in that), Musk is a pretty integral part of that political machine now. You seem to think he's apart from it but he isn't. Massive political donor. Employed by the government to destroy departments investigating his companies. Massive recipient of loans etc raised by the taxes you so despise. Massive beneficiary of the work NASA did when taxes were at their hightest etc.
Ohio just put a moratorium in place because they gave out too many tax breaks. https://www.theregister.com/on...
Yes there are trade jobs during construction but afterwards how many people do you think these places employ? They're a warehouse filled with equipment racks and when something fails a person is sent out to swap parts. They employ at handful of people.
Replacing worthless people with worthless software that boils the oceans. It's not exactly progress, more of a lateral move on the stupidity track of humanity.
Damn straight. I think if I were a trillionaire I could hook up three even; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
I know that News Corp (Rupert Murdoch) is foreign
Oh no you don't! He has been a naturalised American for over 40 years now, no backsies.
He's a billionaire, he'd have a place on Elysium or The Aerium, if such places existed.
Go for the low hanging fruit, a position that is easy to automate and consumes the largest paycheck: MBA
Exactly. You get rich by convincing others to spend their money.
Giving women equal rights leads to this.
Only if you treat them like shit.
They should have equal rights, but let's not pretend that there wasn't any side affects.
Effects.
Nothing happens in a vacuum.
Treating women like shit makes them not want to pump out babies. Now they have a choice, so they are doing a lot less of it. Literally all it would take to get a large portion (a majority IMO) of them to do it without support from a decent partner would be to gracefully and quietly fund the programs that ensure they will be able to feed and provide medical care for their children even if their circumstances change, but there seems to be a problem even meeting that bar.
That is my entire fucking point: from 4 cars behind you have no way of knowing whether it's necessary or not.
But then your entire fucking point becomes pointless about 8 seconds later, literally before I could read it and roll my eyes about it.
Like any standard, it doesn't have to be fully supported, just "good enough" will do.
Except it doesn't. It's shit all day. It makes people upset all day. This means it's costing productivity all day. See, in the real world with real humans, these user pain points have real impacts on those real people.
HTH, HAND!
"So why don't you make like a tree, and get outta here." -- Biff in "Back to the Future"
