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by sparrowInHand 844 days ago
Yes you are. And the problem with musk, is that we have one guy. We could have, with a normal, not oligarchy concentrated enconomy, several Elons in competition. What he does, used to be the normal thing, if you were enterprising.
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snovv_crash 844 days ago
I agree this used to be more normal, but I disagree with the fact that it isn't normal anymore somehow being his fault.

There are plenty of people who made more money than him in the dot-com booms and just whittered the money away on building Facebook for Cats or some zero-commercial-application deep tech project nobody will ever hear about.

In the end we wouldn't be talking about him if the Falcon 1 had a single additional failed launch.

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hersko 844 days ago
> And the problem with musk, is that we have one guy.

What does this even mean? Everyone is only one guy?

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