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My theory is that the people working on it think they’ll get to a financial ‘class’ high enough in the process of working on tech. Be that over the course of how many decades. That they’ll be up there among them in the space station.

Either that or they’re not thinking about the future at all and just doing it for the near instant gratification of a high salary.

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Yea, they're making maybe one order of magnitude more than the average Joe, and they think those piddly $500K of Facebook RSUs are going to be enough to buy them a ticket to the space station.

> they’re not thinking about the future at all

IMO, this is more likely.

Speculation on my part, but this evinces the kind of tech-focused education that I personally know to be pervasive in India. The curriculum omits any "history of technology" or "ethics in innovation", so at best, these founders are missing a core part of "humanistic" learning.

At worst... well, why go there? They're from privileged backgrounds, and mere ignorance is enough to explain this kind of short-sighted "innovation", without adding malice into the mix.

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