Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit::The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.

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      11 months ago

      And you think Elon Musk, the man who owns a car making company, wasn’t trying to sell more cars?

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        11 months ago

        Well, one implies malice, and the other pushing for a better more futuristic future.

        And he has a history of pushing for an idealistic futuristic future, with pushing spacex to figure out how to land rockets or how to make a profitable EV, so ya, I’m willing to say there’s a likely chance he was honest in thinking it was a bad idea and California, the home of silicon valley and advanced technology could maybe come up with something better.

        But we’ll never really know.

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          11 months ago

          he has a history of pushing for an idealistic futuristic future

          I want some of what you are having, because you have a warped perception of reality.

          Tom Nicholas has really good essay on this topic. Musk is not a futurism proponent. He is an apocalyptic visionaire. His view is not preparing a better future for all humans, instead he’s about using tech for rich people surviving the end of the world whilst retaining their privileges. His futurism is fake.