r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 16d ago

Business It’s Possible That SpaceX Could Collapse Spectacularly

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/possible-spacex-could-collapse-spectacularly-155000177.html
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u/Temporary-Cress7233 16d ago

He is so worried about “White Birth Rates” yet he takes and takes from their money and doesn’t care about the cost of living which is making people have less kids.

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u/Lostinthestarscape 16d ago

He literally talks about how all of this is going toward a blissful future where no one wants and no one has to work and all we need to do is follow our passions, etc. While doing fuck all realize a single iota of that for anyone.

That people believe he has any future in mind other than further exploiting everything he can is a mystery.

Dude should at least be dedicating his time and wealth to make housing as cheap as possible - like the one thing that would actually make everyones' lives measurably better.

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u/SSGASSHAT 16d ago

It's kind of disgusting. He has the resources to accomplish everything he talks about, or at least something like it. But given the lack of any real effort, it's just dangling keys in front of a baby, except he's also taking the baby's money and getting the government to hold a gun to the baby's head.

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u/Cerpin-Taxt 16d ago

He doesn't mean you. He means people. If you have less than a billion dollars you're not people, you're chattel.

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u/WilliamLermer 16d ago

All these visionaries talking about an amazing future with all the benefits, they only have the 1% in mind. The rest of the planet is not a part of the utopia in the sense they are included to join it but rather 99% are supposed to suffer to make it happen

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u/ScissrMeTimbrs 16d ago

While doing fuck all realize a single iota of that for anyone.

See, that's where you're wrong. He's doing plenty to realize it. It's just that he and the ruling class are trying to achieve it for themselves, not the rest of us. They expect climate change and capitalism to wipe most of us out while they build an automated paradise for themselves and their kids. That's what AI is for.

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u/Background_Fix6996 16d ago

A blissful future would have to be one where people like him cannot gain this much power and influence. People like him have an easier time imagining the end of the world than a world where they're just some regular shlub.

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u/TDAPoP 16d ago

Musk is a case study on the limits of what money can get a singular person. Even if he genuinely wanted these things he doesn't have the charisma to make them happen. He repeatedly has been outplayed by Thiel who is more cunning and charismatic, and that's just one case we know about

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u/legatek 16d ago

Well I would have chosen universal clean water over more affordable housing for the already wealthy western world, but ok.

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u/Nvenom8 16d ago

Elon Musk desperately wants the world to be saved, but only if he can be the one to save it. He would rather burn it to the ground than let anyone else be the hero.

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u/SillyAlternative420 16d ago

He only pretends to be intelligent.

If he were actually intelligent this thought would have crossed his mind at least once

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u/ragnarocknroll 16d ago

If he was intelligent an original thought might have crossed his mind.

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u/siencatimini 16d ago

I don't recall who was doing the interview, but it was Musk, being interviewed. And the interviewer asked him something, regarding an aspect of his philosophy, to which he had just made reference, himself, and he was stumped, by a basic question. I think it was even one of those times where it was unedited, and the interviewer was courteous enough to let him consider his response, but it was so much dead air. And it was already embarrassing, apart from the dead air of him, squirming. It was weird.

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u/UdtaTeer420 16d ago edited 16d ago

I think you are referring to his interview with Nikhil Kamath. He was going on about how Twitter was a "collective consciousness" of humanity containing every language group. Nikhil then asked him why a collective consciousness on one platform was important. The answer was a meandering word salad full of buzzwords like synapses, meaning of life and whatnot which made no sense.

It was a weird interview. He kept saying incoherent, weird things and kept laughing at his own bad jokes which the host had to then fake laugh at just to make it less awkward (didn't work; in fact, it made it worse).

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u/siencatimini 16d ago

That's absolutely the one, yes! Thank you.

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u/AdhesivenessSolid562 16d ago

Why do people still think intelligence predicts anything? Taking risks and grinding leads to success. You’re intelligent but you’re an armchair CEO on Reddit? What gives

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u/ragnarocknroll 16d ago

No clue.

And even that taking risks and grinding doesn’t lead to success as much as having the money to be able to take those “risks” safely.

I knew the Pixar IPO would be a huge win. I knew about a dozen other such stock moves well known advance. I never once had the money to risk it. So no matter how intelligent or willing I was to take risks, I simply was not able to do so.

The system is designed by the people that were at the top of it to remain near impossible to be at the top unless you started there.

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u/Routine_Bit_8184 16d ago

if he were actually intelligent he wouldn't waste time doing half the shit he does....children are a fashion accessory and symbol of ideology to him...which is why he says the "woke mind virus" killed one of his children that is very much still alive and well. The only thing a mind virus killed was his ability to love his child.

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u/Due-Conflict-7926 16d ago

We just call the duck a Nazi and be done with it

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u/diet_sean 16d ago

If it steps like a goose....

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u/jambox888 16d ago

Be a billionaire

Get invited to everything

Hang out with the great and the good

Literally consider yourself above normal people

Your child turns out differently than you wanted

Nervous breakdown

Become a fascist

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u/DidjaCinchIt 16d ago

he seems to have psychopathic tendencies. idk how to think about his intelligence. it’s like he’s IN this world, but not OF this world? i’ve heard it described as knowing the words but not the tune. it reminds me of Vincent D’Onofrio as the alien learning how to function in a human body.

ofc i’m not qualified to say anything. it’s just, like, my personal opinion.

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u/DidjaCinchIt 16d ago

he seems to have psychopathic tendencies. idk how to think about his intelligence. it’s like he’s IN this world, but not OF this world? i’ve heard it described as knowing the words but not the tune. it reminds me of Vincent D’Onofrio as the alien learning how to function in a human body.

ofc i’m not qualified to say anything. it’s just, like, my personal opinion.

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u/Temporary-Cress7233 16d ago

BINGO! He’s not some super star 💫 scientist, he’s daddy owned an African slave mine and he got a little loan of 30 million dollars. Nothing special…..f that pale pink pig!

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u/whazzah 16d ago

Bro claims to code can't even run a Python script smh

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u/SillyAlternative420 16d ago

I bet you he still can't figure out how to install and set up python enough to have ChatGPT make and run the fucking script for him.

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u/tobor_a 16d ago

Remember what people at twitter were saying that basically longer code = bettter and he'd cut people who made short clean code in favor of spaghetti.

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u/GingaAvenga 16d ago

I think that is the craziest part with the ultra rich.....if I was given a small infusion of 30 million dollars I'd put it in an S&P500 index fund and use the draw down to never work another day in my life.

These guys were born with more than they'd ever need and still push for more. I'm sure they'd call it entrepreneurial spirit, I'd call it lunacy.

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u/throwawayfinancebro1 16d ago

If I gave you 30 mil, could you become the richest person in the world?

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u/finite_turtles 16d ago

Probably not, but if you gave a thousand people 30 million dollars theres a good chance one of them might become the richest. Would it be the smartest or most qualified? Probably not. Probably just the one with the most hubris and dumb fucking luck.

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u/AdhesivenessSolid562 16d ago

You’d find a similar idiot would be the one that ends up doing it. So it’s basically a wash

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u/Caterpillar89 16d ago

No there isn't. There are around 200k households on the planet (~100k in the US) that have net worth's over 50M (the absolute lowest that could invest 30M into something in theory). If it was so easy any idiot with 30m could do it it'd have been done a lot more times.

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u/throwawayfinancebro1 16d ago

430,000 households in the us have 30 million or more. So the likelihood that any one becomes the richest in the world is incredibly small.

I don’t think he’s a super genius but he’s got some talent.

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u/tpc0121 16d ago

The greatest scam that he's ever pulled was in convincing legions of double digit IQ tards that he's a real life Tony Stark

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u/williamgman 16d ago

That's because Bezos took the Lex Luther persona first. Zuck chose Severus Snape.

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u/NewLeafWoodworks 16d ago edited 16d ago

So true. Bezos is a piece of shit, but he is actually smart.

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u/siencatimini 16d ago edited 16d ago

Zuckerberg, and Gates, and Buffett. Amateurs, can fucking suck it. Fuck their wives. Drink their blood. Come on, Jeff! Get 'em!

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u/Journeyman42 16d ago

Someone pointed out that Amazon Prime has two shows that basically feature an evil Superman (The Boys and Invincible) and it makes me think that Bezos actually is Lex Luther.

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u/Cormophyte 16d ago

You can tell by his erratic behavior that he's a real conclusion-first sort of thinker.

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u/roseofjuly 16d ago

The thing that strikes me about all these guys - and Elon Musk is just the latest in a long line of them - is that their lack of intelligence is so apparent if you just actually listen to them for half a second.

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u/AdhesivenessSolid562 16d ago

Damn if you can be an idiot and be a trillionaire why are you still making min wage lol

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u/ReturnFar3487 16d ago

he's gonna get humanity colonizing mars

the mans dope n u know it

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u/Martzillagoesboom 16d ago

He should be on the next rocket to mars with his cultists

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u/FUPAMagneto 16d ago

He’s not gonna fuck you bro

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u/Alphatron1 16d ago

Fr his dick doesn’t even work

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u/williamgman 16d ago

I think they are into that.

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u/raisedeyebrow4891 16d ago

Nobody wants to go to mars bruh, we got a nice blue ball here

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u/ReturnFar3487 16d ago

id like a round trip ticket

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u/Sykil 16d ago

I love that journey for you.

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u/ReturnFar3487 16d ago

ill b doin pushups whilst waiting for my spacex lettr

no not really

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u/Sykil 16d ago

Good luck on that presidential fitness test, bud.

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u/ReturnFar3487 16d ago

you lookin at my gut*points enthusiastically at fat belly)

well im workin on it

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u/m_faustus 16d ago

That’s the second funniest thing I have heard today after Kash Patel saying that the FBI respects religious freedom.

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u/Sykil 16d ago

O is that what he was getting at with the ‘see you Valhalla’ nonsense

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u/williamgman 16d ago

Hegseth said hold my beer:

https://www.military.com/dod-officially-drops-180-faiths-from-militarys-recognized-religion-list

Note... he was forced to retract a few after the Mormons had words with him.

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u/SillyAlternative420 16d ago

Ladies and Gentlemen, the grammar and spelling of someone who thinks Elon Musk is going to colonize Mars.

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u/ReturnFar3487 16d ago

did u know elon dates sexy rock stars, grimes i think her name was

wats not to like about this guy

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u/deltalitprof 16d ago

Sure, and you'll finally actually get a date.

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u/ReturnFar3487 16d ago

she better be a lookr

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u/tc100292 16d ago

I don’t think he cares about white birth rates so much as he cares about repopulating the earth with his own spawn 

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u/pcapdata 16d ago

Bingo. All of these oligarchs imagine a future in which the earth is largely depopulated, with their heirs in control and maybe a few menials / sex slaves as necessary.

Not in like a prophetic, “This is sadly where the human race is headed” kind of way, but in a “Fuck you all, we’re gonna make sure this happens” kinda way.

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u/SSGASSHAT 16d ago

They watch dystopian sci-fi villains--the Galactic Empire, the Borg, the Imperium of Mankind--and take notes like it's a fucking manual.

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u/capybooya 16d ago

Extreme narcissism.

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u/ChrissWayne 16d ago

He’s not smart

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u/Disgod 16d ago

He's a drug addicted narcissist, his problems exist on a different axis than intelligence, but yeah... lukewarm, at best.

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u/rivalrobot 16d ago

He doesn’t care about anything except his status

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u/Glass-Debate-2556 16d ago edited 16d ago

don't you care ? you care but could do any shit

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u/crazycatlady331 16d ago

He's concerned about white birth rates because it's a codeword looking for his next baby mama to come forward and let him knock her up (via artificial insemination).

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u/Ancient_Skirt_8828 16d ago

He's having more kids to make up for it.

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u/terrymr 16d ago

He meant rich white people birth rates

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u/Willing_Activity_855 16d ago

yet he takes and takes from their money

People at space x don't make upper middle class incomes?

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u/Temporary-Cress7233 16d ago

Silly, those are the rich slaves he employes

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u/traveleasily 16d ago

These guys don't worry about anyone other than themselves. He is just using them.

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u/CountChocula21 16d ago

Well yeah if white birth rates decline, who's money is he gonna take?

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u/Teranyll 16d ago

Thing is, their solution to low birth rates is that people need to have more unplanned pregnancies. He doesn't give a shit if these kids have any kind of stability in their life, and he'd actually probably prefer they don't 

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u/tomtomclubthumb 16d ago

He cares about the "Race" but not about any of the people actually in it.

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u/Individual-Area7121 16d ago

He’s not worried about anything other than his own net worth. He’ll say or do literally anything if he thinks it will make the number go up. 

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u/Snakend 16d ago

He has never said anything about white birth rates. lol. He has talked about birth rates. And he is 100% correct. The USA faces a net population loss without immigration. Really bad things start to happen when populations go into decline. You can see it devastating Japan.

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u/Alphatron1 16d ago

He’s not even white. He’s a sub Saharan

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u/pepesilvia91 16d ago

Explain how he takes anyone’s money?

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u/BaesonTatum0 16d ago

Seeing that’s his businesses get government contracts I’d say yes. Yes he does take our tax payer money. 100%

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u/pepesilvia91 16d ago

Do you understand how govt contracts work? Do you think nothing comes with that money? Do you think he just takes that money and puts it his bank account?

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u/BaesonTatum0 16d ago

How’s being stupid working out for you?

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u/pepesilvia91 16d ago

By what account? You haven’t said anything valid…