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Saifedean Ammous · 152w
It works in an easy money environment with plenty of investors chasing buzzwords being sold hopium about scaling and unrealistic expectations about price declines and revenue increase. But the economi...
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Wasn’t Starlink marketed in the same way as the “banking the unbanked” principle, but for rural / less affluent areas? Starlink ain’t cheap so for who is it exactly? I wouldn’t pay €300 to buy a Starlink Kit AND pay €85 a month for internet if i weren’t affluent lol. Always found that interesting…
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Saifedean Ammous · 152w
Basically 95%+ of people who can afford starlink live in places with infinitely better and cheaper internet. Thinking you can finance thousands of satellites to orbit earth from revenue from people who are too poor to have broadband or proper infrastructure is the equivalent of thinking electric ca...
joshmatix · 152w
For the luxury super yacht folks on the high seas without private satellites.  You know, the less affluent ones.
Dnttrstvrfy · 152w
Definitely underestimating how much of our budget those of us in a rural areas (which are much closer to metroplexes than you might think) we are willing to spend to get modern luxury the internet provides. This includes areas where even cell signal doesn't come through. Starlink is a game changer...
Saifedean Ammous · 152w
Long cables are much much cheaper than satellites. Maybe if people weren't wasting their money on another retarded idea from the grifter who brought us dogecoin, ruined Twitter and is hell-bent on uninventing the automobile, you'd have more broadband internet and less living vicariously as the teena...