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by tsol 1519 days ago
A product is published useful if it helps people in sunsaharan Africa? What a strange metric. NASA users Space X to launch their people to the ISS, they're singlehandedly reviving space aeronautics.
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> A product is published useful if it helps people in sunsaharan Africa?

Read my handle, I have nothing against toys for rich people, what I am against is pretending they are anymore than toys for rich people. Google is ubiquitous in our lives, so are Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Exxon, Shell, Walmart, Facebook, Berkshire etc.

Yet the social and market consensus is that Tesla is more important than all the above companies even though it's not ubiquitous, frankly speaking Tesla is the opposite of that.

Like Porsche, Ferrari, McLaren, Corvette... they produce toys for rich people. Badly assembled and badly refined I should add.

> NASA users Space X to launch their people to the ISS, they're singlehandedly reviving space aeronautics.

And what's the quality of life improvement for the American consumer in that whole ordeal? I can pinpoint exactly where and how Google makes my life easier, same for Exxon, Facebook, Microsoft etc.

Watching the rocket go up and land on its butt is at best a form of entertainment for rich people who are too depressed by the daily routine and are too scared to try drugs or too proud to go to therapy.