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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.
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".
Good article on subject: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/02/elon-musk-hyperloop-public-transit-tech …
Wait 'til his fanboys reach middle-age & realize they're expected to get their side hustle on indefinitely because there is no retirement fund at the end of the line
A libertarian I know thinks Musk is nuts because self-driving cars will make mass transit of any kind obsolete. My take is that SDCs wouldn't kill current mass transit, but it would kill Musk's hyperloop dead. Why would rich people use it when they can have SDC limos?
For that matter, mass transit will survive precisely because most people soon won't be able to afford cars, self-driving or not. Not with college and other debts to pay off.
He's just creating better technology. It could be used for public transport. IC engines are used make private cars and public buses, for instance.
Someone joked when he launched the rocket that he's a comic book supervillain but I don't think it's much of an exaggeration.
I'm from a Canadian province that just cut it's rural bus services in a hypothetical bid to lower costs but it's primarily used as a means of getting rural poor and native people's to medical appointments. The province is lawding it's cost saving measures over sick people.
Also doubt very much that the increased medical costs for missed appointments will actually result in any real savings. This is and always has been about transferring public money into private hands.
What socialist don't understand is that profit is necessary but not sufficient. And btw if an idea doesn't make a profit is because people don't care about it enough to pay for it.
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