And as their apparent unpopularity in the media and on places like Twitter should make apparent, it's unclear that "billionaires" are really in much of a position to solve political problems - and most people complain loudly when they _do_ involve themselves in politics.
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Yeah I definitely get where you're coming from. The US military is perhaps a perfect counter example to my comments on billionaire vs government spending

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Although to be fair, lots of innovation came from US military R&D, too that we use every day. Like GPS or the internet (to an extent). It's just that the military doesn't use that technology in great ways most of the time.
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Not to mention that Musk has achieved in fewer years (and now with oustanding acceleration) targets that for the government will be impossible for many years still (if they don't completely fail like for now is quite obvious). So...
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It is true that commercial industry generally moves faster than governments. I'm not arguing against that, but I dislike the fact that one person has that much power over how to spend our resources. One could, perhaps, run a company (more) like a democracy than a dictatorship?
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