Wow, a guy worth 20 billion dollars spending $700 million on himself, with the rest tied up in change-the-world type companies. What a selfish prick.
Meanwhile, Sergei Brin is having a one of the largest airships ever made built for him, to serve as his private flying yacht.
I think I found one of Elon's fluffer bots.
And Musk is not in it for the miney
The $700M he's borrowed against his TSLA shares say otherwise. 5 mansions, a Gulfstream, and other features of his jet-setting lifestyle add up. It's always been about making money for himself and his voortrekker clan.
This quote, from the very end, is interesting:
Thiel...says civil liberties advocates should welcome Palantir. âoeWe cannot afford to have another 9/11 event in the U.S. or anything bigger than that,â he says. âoeThat day opened the doors to all sorts of crazy abuses and draconian policies.â
There is something in that, I think. You can argue all you like about rights and what makes just law, but the fact is such events tend to drive the national mood squarely towards security over civil liberty.
Thiel calls himself a civil libertarian? A civil libertarian would accept that every once in a while a group of criminals may figure out how to crash planes into buildings, but would prefer that over further government encroachment over people's lives. And that history has shown the rife of abuses government has committed against its own people when given too much power over them. These systems are far more likely to allow abuses than to prevent attacks. His argument is doublethink.
The universe does not have laws -- it has habits, and habits can be broken.
