Can someone give me good news? Maybe this is a fake story?

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I don't think elon is that dumb. I think he knows that people are that dumb, and he enjoys acting dumb. He knows his companies are worthless, and he's just milking it and making IRL SimCity plans (which will only ever be plans) for as long as the facade lasts.

    The only things that fundamentally matter are land food and guns. I don't think there are any billionaires that are too stupid to realize this

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Has Elon bought up a bunch of arable land?

        has he not?

        It's not like the news would report "Elon just bought 200 acres of land". Bill gates had to buy 269,000 for them to report on it. For reference it takes 2.67 acres to sustain a person comfortably (US style diet). Maybe bump that up to 6 acres to account for inefficient use due to newbie farming skills.

        Nobody is going to report on a billionaire buying the amount of land needed to sustain them, because it's just such a tiny amount of land that it's forgettable in comparison to everything else they do.

        You could theoretically buy a hovel and store some canned sardines and lentils in there to last you 5 years. The food supply would cost only a couple thousand bucks. People's survival needs aren't expensive.

          • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            there are two basic interpretations of the "mars" plan

            1. humans will terraform mars and it'll become a major haven for human life. This is what some people unironically believe and it is obviously totally delusional.

            2. humans will spend enormous amounts of money to create a base on mars or the moon

            I think #2 is possible, and probably is what elon is trying to make happen or believes can happen. I don't think that's particularly unreasonable