Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires
by ben_w on Friday August 13, 2021 @01:22PM
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> Elon Musk took over Tesla and SpaceX. He was not the innovator there.
I remember before Tesla: electric cars were a joke, nothing more. Even if the only thing Musk did was convince rich people they were not-terrible, this was worth it. (Same RE: the iPod, which was infamously dismissed on slashdot, yet did in fact revolutionise the MP3 player market).
When it comes to SpaceX, however, Musk is an actual rocket scientist.
And of course, the iPods being popular created a lot of jobs that would otherwise not have existed, both for rich people like us and for the industrialisation in the same area as the Foxconn factories in China)
I remember before Tesla: electric cars were a joke, nothing more. Even if the only thing Musk did was convince rich people they were not-terrible, this was worth it. (Same RE: the iPod, which was infamously dismissed on slashdot, yet did in fact revolutionise the MP3 player market).
When it comes to SpaceX, however, Musk is an actual rocket scientist.
And of course, the iPods being popular created a lot of jobs that would otherwise not have existed, both for rich people like us and for the industrialisation in the same area as the Foxconn factories in China)