SpaceX is using cash to cozy up to lawmakers in Washington — and increasingly giving to Republican lawmakers

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/spacex-ipo-pac-republicans-politics-election-price-midterms-rcna349275

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Spitzspot@startrek.website · 16 pts · 57d (4 replies)

Famous billionaires who lost everything: Elizabeth Holmes, Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford, Eike Batista, Sean Quinn, Björgólfur Gudmundsson https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/08/23/famous-billionaires-who-lost-everything/

ThisGuyThat@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 57d (2 replies)

We will have full self-driving serfs by 2028. We will be delivering humans to mars by 2030. To the mooon!!!

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 54d (1 reply)

I heard both were six months away.

ThisGuyThat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 54d

That's for AI surgeon.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 56d

to be fair the first two never had billions, they were true scammers through and through. im surprise holmes took so long to hit the MSM, when she well known in the biotech world as a scam since like 2015-2016.

HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 56d

If we ever get a progressive government with a real appetite for change, this company (and lots of others like it) should be fully nationalized as an example of what could happen to companies that attempt to profit from buying the government.

AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 56d

Kill 'em all

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 56d

Time to actually do something against bribery and corruption. Only that both parties have absolutely no reason to do so.