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Comment by xyst | Hacker News Reader

All billionaires are permanent stains on US history. Musk is just the poster child for this behavior.

In your world view, what would you personally do if you start one, or multiple, incredibly successful companies and amass $ billion(s) of equity in the process?

Shut the hell up and stay the hell out of politics.

Without subsidies from the Obama administration, Tesla never succeeds.

Without government contracts, SpaceX never succeeds.

Without a mysterious visa, Musk never stays legally in the U.S.

All of those are true, but what do they have to do with the question posed?

Donate aggressively to the local community, mostly towards public transit, education, child development, and housing.

Try to socialize LVT and other policies that will improve everyone’s lives.

Thankfully all of these problems are just money problems - price tags on a shelf no billionaire wants to pay apparently. If it turns out these are actually just hard problems, whoever will we blame?

Billionaires are trying to make that happen with California Forever, but of course you'd have to believe what they say in order to believe in it.

In case it wasn't clear my original comment was sarcasm. These are hard problems that are not solved by being funded, but people like to peek in the pockets of billionaires and ask why they haven't bought solutions yet. I have not heard of California Forever though and will look into that.

Land Value Tax?

Ideally that wouldn't be possible. The actual workers that built the companies would realize the gains.

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