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Comment by gertop | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
[−]gertop · 2026-11-15 Sun 07:16 UTC · link
I'd rather billionaires not exist at all, personally. Before you say something absurd like "SpaceX wouldn't exist without billionaires" I suggest you check the timeline. Falcon 9 was operational before Elon Musk officially joined the 10 digits club.

Innovation will always happen and Elon didn't personally inject billions into SpaceX either.

Let's cap wealth at 999M and anything over the gets redistributed to poor entrepreneurs.

[−]jquery · 2026-11-15 Sun 08:37 UTC · link
Billionaires are the economic equivalent of software memory leaks.