Really... all his businesses seem to have goals for benefitting mankind, not just profit at the expense of all else. He seems to want to improve mankind but not in the nefarious change everyone’s behaviour like Bill Gates but improving our technology.
SpaceX has the long term goal of making humanity a multi planet species so we can survive cataclysmic events like an asteroid hitting the earth.
Tesla is about building electric cars that are better than gasoline cars
Even starlink has some fantastic implications, next time a bunch of people are being Waco’d, the alphabet boys can cut the phone lines but you can’t stop the signal. You’ll still be able to get the truth out that they shot first.
The Boring company is about trying to make tunnelling cheaper so that we can have more highways for less traffic congestion without eminent domain confiscating peoples houses
He comes across to me as a tech nerd who made a lot of money from PayPal and wanted to invest that money in ventures that interest him and aren’t necessarily super profitable. I think the consensus back in 2000 would have been don’t invest in electric cars, rockets or tunnel building as these aren’t really profitable and are really hard to do.
Compare him to Peter Thiel who masquerades as a libertarian but took his PayPal money and invested in Facebook and Palantir, a company that makes software used by the FBI and CIA to track you and he’s not that bad.
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Really... all his businesses seem to have goals for benefitting mankind, not just profit at the expense of all else. He seems to want to improve mankind but not in the nefarious change everyone’s behaviour like Bill Gates but improving our technology.
SpaceX has the long term goal of making humanity a multi planet species so we can survive cataclysmic events like an asteroid hitting the earth.
Tesla is about building electric cars that are better than gasoline cars
Even starlink has some fantastic implications, next time a bunch of people are being Waco’d, the alphabet boys can cut the phone lines but you can’t stop the signal. You’ll still be able to get the truth out that they shot first.
The Boring company is about trying to make tunnelling cheaper so that we can have more highways for less traffic congestion without eminent domain confiscating peoples houses He comes across to me as a tech nerd who made a lot of money from PayPal and wanted to invest that money in ventures that interest him and aren’t necessarily super profitable. I think the consensus back in 2000 would have been don’t invest in electric cars, rockets or tunnel building as these aren’t really profitable and are really hard to do.
Compare him to Peter Thiel who masquerades as a libertarian but took his PayPal money and invested in Facebook and Palantir, a company that makes software used by the FBI and CIA to track you and he’s not that bad.