meanwhile, on the timeline where Elon Musk decided to fix Flint's water: "lol @ techbros reinventing municipal water" "Flint's Water Is Not Your Vanity Project, Elon Musk" "keep SV robber barons out of our water" "Are Silicon Valley Billionaires Trying To Become Water Gods?"
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Replying to @chaosprime @kylemathews
Here in reality timeline, nobody is laughing at Bill Gates for fixing malaria. You might be extrapolating a bit too far.
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so for sure nobody called Musk a colonialist exploiter when he had Tesla bring solar panels to Puerto Rico after Maria, right
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Do you really think those solar panels are the most effective way Musk could have helped in PR? It struck me as an advertising move, not much more helpful than people who send used clothing or teddy bears.
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What would be more effective? Just throwing money at it, that FEMA could spend on paying dishonest contractors to throw away on catering? Wasn't the lack of power infrastructure the big thing holding back recovery?
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Yes. But delivering solar panels does not fix the power infrastructure. It helps some number of people but it doesn't solve the underlying problem. SV has a reputation for doing that kind of end run around big problems. Even when it works, it's frustrating to others in the space.
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Enough solar panels and batteries, and they can just /replace/ the power infrastructure. And powering critical points (hospitals, e.g.) helps astronomically in the meantime.
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and sending the equipment he already has on hand instead of commissioning a six month study to spend two years building the infrastructure to do the most effective thing he possibly can might be better in an emergency
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