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The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.
He never planned to improve transportation; he just wants to keep people trapped in cars.
https://newrepublic.com/article/174089/big-tech-watching-drive
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Your last point is something that I often say: we’ll never figure out how to reverse aging, we’ll only figure out how to stop Elon Musk aging.
On the philanthropy point: We used to have more progressive taxation systems that discouraged wealth-hoarding. For someone of arbitrarily large income, massive philanthropic acts were often ways to avoid paying taxes. They were going to lose the money either way, but by building a library, expanding a hospital, funding a humanitarian project, feeding the poor or whatever they could choose where the money was spent instead and, as others have said, get some good PR and legacy-building at the same time. Now their wealth isn’t threatened by taxation, why would they even consider relinquishing it?
Your last point is something that I often say: we’ll never figure out how to reverse aging, we’ll only figure out how to stop Elon Musk aging.
On the philanthropy point: We used to have more progressive taxation systems that discouraged wealth-hoarding. For someone of arbitrarily large income, massive philanthropic acts were often ways to avoid paying taxes. They were going to lose the money either way, but by building a library, expanding a hospital, funding a humanitarian project, feeding the poor or whatever they could choose where the money was spent instead and, as others have said, get some good PR and legacy-building at the same time. Now their wealth isn’t threatened by taxation, why would they even consider relinquishing it?