Right now the city buses are run for the benefit of the people living in the city. For people like Elon Musk, that's a nightmare. He thinks buses should be run by a billionaire capitalist like him, and should be designed to benefit him, for profit.
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You'll notice in these Utopian visions of the tech future, they never say stuff like "and this is how it will be even more accessible than what we have now", it's always like "it has its own WiFi so you can work while on the way to work, in your private booth".
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I don't think Elon Musk has such evil plans. How exactly are they planning to exclude the poor and disabled? They just switched from moving cars to moving pedestrians, in musk's words, because people with less means should have higher priority.
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Assuming good things out of anyone worth billions of dollars is naive at best.
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Labeling / name calling is not ok just because you disagree with someone.
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Meh... replacing one tyrant for another is really only a lateral change. Whether private or public, the system still only exists to make the powerful ore powerful.
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A public system is owned by the people. By definition, in fact? Last I checked the government was us. It's a lot easier to fix a system that you own than one that you don't.
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and he's using public funds to do it
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Elon Musk is welcome to get a job at a municipal metro service.
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