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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Musk isn't a god. Other than panels, ev cars, and rockets, he's kinda useless. Solar panels aren't a full solution but they're absolutely helpful on the margin so hard to see it purely as advertising
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Not purely advertising, I agree. Just inefficient use of resources.
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What could Musk do to get power back to PR any faster? Anyone else he paid to do anything about it would almost certainly not be as good at it as Tesla is.
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the point mainly seems to be that if you want good humanitarian PR, you have to grease the palms of all the vested actors in the sector so they talk you up, not cut them out of the loop just because they're a useless collection of resource sinks
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"there's no limit to what you can accomplish so long as you don't care who gets the credit", and so forth
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