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Re:Now live for all: Substack Notes by jodrellblank on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:35PM (#35543524)
> "That sounds like one of the least interesting things I could do with $44bn."

You could fund The Manhattan Project ($21Bn).

And the Panama Canal ($13Bn).

And the Concorde project ($2.5Bn).

And the Hoover Dam ($0.8Bn).

And an Eiffel Tower, a Statue of Liberty, and a statue of Christ the Redeemer. ($100s of M)

Buy yourself a B52 Stealth Bomber (~$2Bn).

And a Hindenburg ($100M), and a Titanic ($400M).

And still have a couple of billion left over.

Re:Now live for all: Substack Notes by v0idzer0 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:33PM (#35549211)
Except you couldn’t really do most of that without government support and approval
Re:Now live for all: Substack Notes by jodrellblank on Thursday April 13, 2023 @09:47AM (#35555402)
Rather missing the point that any of those are more interesting than "a thousand Twitter clones". But even on that point, Musk managed to do a lot with SpaceX and Tesla supercharger network which need various government support and approvals.