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>Despite his projected persona, Musk would love nothing more than to get to the position of being the bloated encumbant supplier with guaranteed government contracts regardless of results.

I'm impressed you can keep saying this nonsense despite how SpaceX operates being pretty well documented.

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I mean, what wealthy person wouldn't like to be on the "free money" train?

We do have a large number of wealthy people who are all about that and I find it mind boggling. What kind of idiot decides that the most important thing to them after they already have over a billion dollars is to get more? Why not try to do new risky things that are unlocked by that money? How're they really just all about a "number go up" game?

Fortunately it seems that we also have quite a few wealthy people that actually want to use their money to fund and do new and innovative stuff.

> We do have a large number of wealthy people who are all about that and I find it mind boggling

Selection bias?

People who don't care about constantly accumulating more wealth than they need rarely end up obtaining it.

One with an absurd amount of money that actually focuses on improving society and science. Instead we have Musk, and you’re probably right.

Oh so he doesn't focus on "improving society and science" by throwing money into jaws of NGOs but by trying to make us actually spacefaring.

Musk has done some impressive things for himself. Along the way he’s helped out society. Now it seems as though he’s done with that and cares more about changing it match his image.

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