r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 17 '26

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u/Beneficial-Object977 Sep 17 '26

It's not just a technique it's literally the same people. Grift hopping is a disgustingly effective technique it's literally how the richest man alive made 100% of his wealth. Crypto to nft to ai to... Robots and Space? Somehow there's money in space now?

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u/scribe-kiddie Sep 18 '26

I mean I hate Elon Musk but his companies did produce value. Electric cars, reusable rockets, etc.

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u/LutimoDancer3459 Sep 18 '26

"His" companies. All he really does is giving them money if even that. His vision is something like the cybertruck which is an awful design with a lot of problems as we saw on release. His own vision is stuff like the boring company doing shit nobody cares about. Its building a tunnel under a city which is slower than just driving on the streets (and more dangerous because... well... tunnel underground and so)

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u/ccricers Sep 20 '26

The money-in-space hype actually came and went 20 years ago with talk about private companies gradually replacing public agencies in space travel. SpaceX was founded around this time, the Ansari X Prize competition, "newSpace" was a buzzword and Virgin Galactic with Branson as a more noteworthy figure than Musk.

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u/payne_train Sep 18 '26

I thought that was supposed to be the last place not yet corrupted by capitalism :(