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unethical_banlast Wednesday at 4:53 PM1 replyview on HN

He hasn't "given" society anything, we pay these companies for their services (often with taxpayer dollars!)

It doesn't suck that SpaceX or Tesla exists. It sucks that the person who has profited most from those entities is using their power to destroy government agencies that oversee his companies, and more broadly, to constantly lie and try to destroy the federal government.


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scarab92last Wednesday at 9:14 PM

> He hasn't "given" society anything, we pay these companies for their services

He’s given society new products and services that didn’t exist before, the option to purchase from those companies, and the tax revenue from those companies (to the tune of hundreds of billions)