this New York Times article on the SpaceX IPO spends more time talking about the company's IPO day party plans and decor than they do the fact this is all a giant unworkable con orchestrated by an overt white supremacist huckster
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nytimes.comElon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire on SpaceX’s First Day of Trading
I'm genuinely fascinated by this sort of weird pseudo-journalism. It vaguely looks like journalism but it doesn't actually care about labor, ethics, real-world impact, or even that the key IPO architect is an overt authoritarian
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How about the fact that the success of the SpaceX IPO depends on Musk creating a million person settlement on Mars, something that only the delusional could believe will happen in his lifetime, if ever. People thinking of investing need to be given a copy of this book to read.
space.com'A City on Mars' is a reality check for anyone dreaming about life on the Red PlanetIt wasn't until maybe a year before we were done writing — and we wrote for four years — that we decided this book is actually about why space settlements aren't coming soon.