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Elon Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat (www.cnbc.com)
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KEY POINTS

  • Elon Musk said SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft “immediately” because of threats by Donald Trump to cancel government contracts with Musk’s businesses.
  • Musk’s announcement on his social media site X escalated a war of words with Trump that began after the Tesla CEO criticized the major tax bill being pushed by the Republican president.
  • A SpaceX Dragon capsule brought two NASA astronauts back to Earth in March after they were stranded for months at the International Space Station by a Boeing Starliner capsule.
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[–] 211 points 1 year ago (13 children)

And this is why billionaires should not control vital resources

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  • [+] -43 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    I'm okay if billionaires exist, but their political and economic power should be somehow kept in check

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nope. No one person ever needs anything near that amount of money.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Agreed. No one should have that much wealth. Saying it is fine is like saying cancer is fine for a body.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'm okay with billionaires if the government provides a UBI of ten million a year. A hundred years of UBI seems like a fair amount for someone to own if they worked really hard and inherited a nice house. Houses are one of the only things I think should be inherited.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Money is political and economic power. You CANNOT have one without the other.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    doesn't need to be

    go get money out of politics

    remove citizens united and all that

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That won't end corruption

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There is no magic system that will allow us all to live in a world where we don't have to be ever vigilant against corruption. That will ALWAYS be the price of freedom. FOREVER. But we can make it easier on ourselves. Good laws can't solve all our problems, but they can keep them manageable.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    then work harder against corruption

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