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Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not... by chrismcb on Sunday May 18, 2025 @09:46PM (#44025865)
I'm not sure what you argument is here. But I world rather have inexpensive things that improve lives. There isn't a huge market for expensive things that improve lives. It are you trying to say you want rich people to spend their money trying to build things to improve lives? Some do. Why do you think we have star link, for example
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Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not... by jmye on Sunday May 18, 2025 @11:37PM (#44026344)
I don’t think StarLink was built to improve lives. See: how it’s being used as a control and power mechanism.
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Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not... by ta1243 on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:46AM (#44028035)
Starlink was built to provide a customer for large numbers of space launches.
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Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not... by jmye on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:50PM (#44036252)
Maybe in part, but you build an ISP (and then strong arm people into using it) because you want to control the data and the access. Especially when you clearly prioritize those things in your side jobs.
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