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Re:Elon Musk, Tech’s Cash-Poor Billionaire by playeren on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:41AM (#23122972)
Maybe it is the other way around; we can't afford _not_ to spend 10s of trillions on moonshots. Depends on how sustainable one thinks the status quo is, and the risk timeframe for potential consequenses.
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Re:Elon Musk, Tech’s Cash-Poor Billionaire by gpm on Saturday May 09, 2020 @07:50AM (#23123964)
It also depends on how much you think you increase the risk by disrupting the status quo, and how much you think extracting 10s of trillions would disrupt the status quo.
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