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Re:Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute by testing22321 on Saturday June 06, 2026 @03:32PM (#48428166)
Isn’t that the entire point of a capitalist economy?

What is the alternative?

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Re:Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute by gmd63 on Saturday June 06, 2026 @06:28PM (#48429654)
No, the point is to implement laws that foster holistic growth, not gamesmanship that ends in terminal illness.
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Re:Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute by testing22321 on Saturday June 06, 2026 @07:41PM (#48430248)
> holistic growth

I have never before heard that term in regards to the economy.

Everyone has always wanted maximum growth now, future be dammed.

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Re:Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute by dzhiurgis on Sunday June 07, 2026 @07:43AM (#48433905)
People want to live now.
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Re:Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute by palmotea on Sunday June 07, 2026 @12:54AM (#48431937)
>> I wouldn't call it brilliant. It's like cancer cells celebrating how fast they're growing.

> Isn’t that the entire point of a capitalist economy?

> What is the alternative?

If the point is to be cancer, then the alternative is to kill it.

Things are getting so out of hand, this former-libertarian is getting to the point were he'd support any market regulation that makes libertarians cry.

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