Ellie 🐍 🎄
I heard a theory recently that felt right to me: that Elon Musk's Boring Company isn't actually meant to produce usable mass transit. Instead, it's designed to outbid other public-transit proposals and then intentionally fail, so that trust in public transit proposals will be eroded and people will continue to buy and drive cars.
Mina@noelle every silicon Valley (an area which is slowly expanding to cover the entire west coast) company (or, as they call themselves: startup) since Uber has followed Uber's model of lobbying, erosion of protections of their workers and their competition, deregulation and so on and so forth
Uber lobbied against the taxi industry and against worker protections
Airbnb lobbied against the hotel industry and consumer protections in the fucking apartment rent industry
Musk hates public transit, he has "admitted" so frequently in interviews, he doesn't see the point, and it grosses him out
but because he's still stuck in the wrong kindergarten, nobody told him "don't yuck my yum". and so he is very determined to destroy it, and replacing it with his overpriced cars
the people running these companies don't care about the collateral damage their companies do to the people, the only thing they care about is their own goals, and not too interfere too strongly with their friends' goals
lord pthenq1