Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s not money, that’s power. Money quits being money somewhere around a million dollars a year-ish, call it 100M lump sum. Above that, more money isn’t an abstract thing you buy goods, services and real-estate with, it’s power: the power to command other people to do your bidding.

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  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He bought the whole US president. Watch him kill SLS and Gateway the second Issacman gets confirmed as head NASA admin. I don’t know why private companies don’t fund their own shit rather than steal from taxpayerS through NASA.

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know why private companies don’t fund their own shit rather than steal from taxpayerS through NASA.

      It’s not that they can’t fund their own: it’s “why would they, when they can use their wealth and influence to get it funded by taxpayers?” youtu.be/kTlhIQeBWHI?t=20

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Unless you buy Twitter.

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    • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No, that was absolutely that. Do you not think he gained a massive amount of control with that?

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No one takes X seriously.

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I still think there’s a difference.

        When people talk about wielding money like power, its more along the lines of

        • if you don’t do what I say, I’ll destroy you by doing XYZ.
        • you better change your laws or I can fuck shit up in some way.
        • I can break the law because you can’t fucking touch me.

        For Twitter he actually used his wealth as actual money to buy something you would buy with money.

        He did get power from it yes, but I still think there’s a distinction when talking about wiedling it as power.

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• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  These are forward looking claims on something they are building. It’s not quite the same.

  FSD is closer, but it is an improving product.

  It’d be more like if FSD wasn’t ever improving even and yet he still kept making the claims.

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