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Re:The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mo... by greglindahl on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:52PM (#20047642)
Winning a competition to ship cargo and then people to the space station is a bad thing?

Is there some universe in which entrepreneurs exit the electric car industry solely because the government starts offering consumers subsidies to buy them?

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Re:The Boring Company will develop an underground “people mo... by GuB-42 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @12:03PM (#20052547)
It is not a bad thing. I will never criticize a company for making money or an entrepreneur for grabbing opportunities.

I don't like the hype around Elon Musk and I think Hyperloop is a borderline scam (I can detail if you want). However I also think the success of PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX are well deserved. With them the world is a better place and Elon Musk is a richer man, that's capitalism working as intended. That subsidies helped creating a company that makes nice electric cars and solar panels is the reason the subsidies exist in the first place.

My previous point wasn't a criticism.

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