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Elon Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat (www.cnbc.com)

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Elon Musk said SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft “immediately” because of threats by Donald Trump to cancel government contracts with Musk’s businesses.
Musk’s announcement on his social media site X escalated a war of words with Trump that began after the Tesla CEO criticized the major tax bill being pushed by the Republican president.
A SpaceX Dragon capsule brought two NASA astronauts back to Earth in March after they were stranded for months at the International Space Station by a Boeing Starliner capsule.

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[–] [email protected] 210 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

And this is why billionaires should not control vital resources

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 weeks ago

But they always do.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm okay if billionaires exist, but their political and economic power should be somehow kept in check

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope. No one person ever needs anything near that amount of money.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Agreed. No one should have that much wealth. Saying it is fine is like saying cancer is fine for a body.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I'm okay with billionaires if the government provides a UBI of ten million a year. A hundred years of UBI seems like a fair amount for someone to own if they worked really hard and inherited a nice house. Houses are one of the only things I think should be inherited.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Money is political and economic power. You CANNOT have one without the other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

doesn't need to be

go get money out of politics

remove citizens united and all that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

That won't end corruption

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

There is no magic system that will allow us all to live in a world where we don't have to be ever vigilant against corruption. That will ALWAYS be the price of freedom. FOREVER. But we can make it easier on ourselves. Good laws can't solve all our problems, but they can keep them manageable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Good laws, like capping personal wealth?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

then work harder against corruption

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

by removing billionaires

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

by making sure they cant spend their money on stuff their not supposed to, like buying politicians