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By now you have likely heard that the billionare who has both taken and railed against the kind of government subsidies that have helped enrich he and his has given up a big whack of his worldly possessions and moved into a tiny house in Boca Chica on the Texas Gulf Coast.
By now you have likely heard that the billionare who has both taken and railed against the kind of government subsidies that have helped enrich he and his has given up a big whack of his worldly possessions and moved into a tiny house in Boca Chica on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Which is all fine and good as far as it goes.
But one thing you may not have heard is that Mr. Musk's rocket ship company, whose end product is most decidedly not carbon neutral, owns pretty much the entire town.
Boca Chica village sits in the shadow of the SpaceX compound. Just a few years ago the village was little more than two streets of a few dozen one-story houses and a shrine to the Virgin Mary...{snip}...After 2018 the company built infrastructure on all three sides of the village: a solar farm to the south, a company-run RV park with chic Airstream trailers to the west, and storage facilities to the east, behind the shrine to the Virgin. Agents for SpaceX urged the villagers to sell quickly while the county officials publicly warned that eminent domain could be used if they refused. Some residents say the offers were not generous, though they were coming, indirectly, from one of the richest men on the planet. Some accepted the buyouts because living under the shadow of the company had become so onerous. “It was as if I didn’t own my own home,” said Cheryl Stevens, who sold her house in 2019...{snippety doo-dah}...Today, what’s left of the town exists in a strange kind of superposition between the old and the new, Boca Chica village and Starbase. Some houses—eleven, by Garcia’s count—are still owned by the old residents, gently worn and painted in earth tones. The rest have been repainted black and white and gray. All the new homes sport Tesla chargers in front...
So.
Fire up the bitcoin boilers boys...
Because Jimmy Durante's final friends were right!
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Photo at top of the post...Space-X's kerosene burning booster rocket pile that powers the 'Falcon Heavy' from the AP via the LA Times.
Sub-header?...This.
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4 comments:
In my opinion, the 3 spacer billionaires are useless when it comes to improving the world. Its all about them and how much money they can make and how few taxes they can pay. they also haven't done much to improve the enviornment, etc. musk may be rich, but he isn't much of a human being. He could have stayed in space for good. It will come as some surprise to him when he dies, just like the rest of us.
e.a.f.--
It's hard to disagree with your assessment of the record/airline/Britishtrainprivatizaiton and, especially, the destroyerofretail guys.
However, I'm personally not so sure about Mr. Musk. It seems that sometimes he genuinely wants to do the right thing. I think this tiny house thing is an example of that but it is the lock-stock-and-barrel surrounding ownership of everything and the pushing out of all who run up against the latter that is the part that sticks in my craw. Other times though, like what happened at the Fremont car factory, well there I would agree with your assessment...
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Still trying to understand the concept of Bitcoin mining. I do not think it is something I personally need.
It truly is a mad world.
Chuck--
Perhaps they, the bitcoins I mean, are all buried under 'The Big W'....
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