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Re:Buffett to Musk: ‘There Are Some Pretty Good Moats Around’ by mlevental on Sunday May 06, 2018 @12:30PM (#17006971)
>I'm sort of terrified about the opportunity cost to humanity when billionaires want to settle an idle theory about markets and start devoting cycles to that.

you act like tesla is giving away electric cars to underprivileged minorities and spacex is ferrying school kids to better school districts. it's always all fun and games and that anyone believes otherwise speaks to efficacy the marketing/ideology machine

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Re:Buffett to Musk: ‘There Are Some Pretty Good Moats Around’ by brownbat on Monday May 07, 2018 @08:27AM (#17012177)
Call me a sucker, but I do think electrification, AI, and space tech have a nonzero chance of improving humanity's future. Gil Scott Heron's right that rockets don't put food on the table though. So for more immediate problems, note that Buffett has also pushed tech billionaires towards charitable causes in other interactions:

https://givingpledge.org

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Re:Buffett to Musk: ‘There Are Some Pretty Good Moats Around’ by mlevental on Monday May 07, 2018 @08:36AM (#17012215)
sucker
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