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Lyn Alden · 152w
Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass. He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narrativ...
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His internet satellite thing is also an unworkable scam. All his genius ideas are always on the verge of changing the world, they just need more government support before they do.

Notice when actual inventions are going to change the world, their producers are too busy making them to ask anyone for money. The ICE car, airplane, or iphone did not need decades of subsidies like the electric car or his rockets to nowhere.
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Highsselhoff · 152w
Savage Saif 🫡
farooq · 152w
This decade is so exciting
Jdwagner17 · 152w
I’m in automotive and share contractors with Tesla. I’ll repeat what I said. His ingenuity is not what has made his money. His marketing of a vision has tricked many people I know to go work their asses off there for much less compensation. That isn’t a problem, but they need the company val...
hierophany · 152w
Scam or not, for those of us in rural areas, Starlink has been a lifesaver. There is literally no other option besides DSL or even slower more expensive satellite. I don’t care at all what Elon’s personal affiliation with Starlink is, but I’m grateful for faster internet where I can actually r...
Gary ₿usey · 152w
Loved The Bitcoin Standard! Read it twice. Currently reading it for the third time.
rand0mguest2 · 152w
Mars is a scam too lol the firmament says otherwise
Saifedean Ammous · 152w
Don't count on it lasting long. Like all his ideas its shell life is attracting investors, not operating sustainably and profitably
Gary ₿usey · 152w
Yeeeeerp
Steven · 152w
We’ll see how long the Starlink party lasts but for me in a rural setting, it has been life changing. And it keeps getting better month after month. I hope it’s not a grift because I have no other workable options atm.
Mike Brock · 152w
I mean, I very much dislike Elon and criticize him harshly. But Starlink actually works, contrary to your characterization of it as an "unworkable scam".
Des Imoto マキシ · 152w
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Mark ⚡️ · 152w
How is Star link a scam? It works. Providing higher speeds in Sydney, more than I can get through a land cable. You’re talking bollocks to get some likes. Steve Jobs had government subsidies too. You all sounds like a bunch of kids jumping on a band wagon. Lyn sits around looking at charts and...
Bitcoin Luffy · 152w
And when real break through happens like #ChatGPT, Elon wants to slow down the progress cuz he ain't in the driving seat of the next generation technology revolution.
Mark Sea · 152w
Starlink is disguised as internet for the underserved. The bread and butter for that one is governments and military.
Saifedean Ammous · 152w
I kind of refuse to believe the Mars stuff is a scam because I refuse to believe anyone is actually stupid enough to believe he's serious.
Coin Bender · 152w
Their carapace of thick stupidity may allow for the belief
Coin Bender · 152w
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Adarnit · 152w
The only thing that is sustainable about Elon is his ability to conjure up new projects to get buzzword investors to subsidize.
21Pizza · 152w
The first cars were electric. Nobody wanted gasoline cars because they made too much noise and smoke, and the crank could break your arm when you started it. But batteries had very small capacity back then, so gasoline won. What I find a bit strange is for someone who promotes an independence tec...
someone · 152w
I feel like could he be the owner of the controlled opposition to keep people there and don't go to Nostr
theinfinityman · 152w
Salty... but true
carte · 120w
Sorry Saif, but this is just false. I work in remote locations frequently and it's night and day since Starlink became a thing. Prior to it I would have no access to the outside world for weeks at a time, now it's just the standard to have internet available. While there were other remote services ...
Deleted Account · 50w
Couldn’t disagree more lol