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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: commonone ✹✹ HONORARY
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Subject: Re: The second American revolution
Date: 02/28/25 9:24 AM
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Gator1984: Musk is offering his services to help for FREE! His time is pretty valuable, maybe the most valuable of any of us in the whole USA.

What now?

Consider this: Musk pushed the White House to fire hundreds of FAA employees — at the same time taking loyalists from SpaceX and installing them in the FAA — and wrangled away a $2.4 billion multi-year contract to replace antiquated, legacy systems from Verizon to award to his own company, Starlink. The original contract with Verizon dates back to 2023. Unwinding that contract will be complicated and expensive... and likely end up in court.

Not a bad return on his valuable “FREE” time, eh?

Perhaps you could become better informed of other Musk self-dealing, such as the $400 million US government contract for “armored Tesla” vehicles.

And here's just one of many articles detailing how his businesses have collected more than $38 billion in government funds — including millions loaned to Tesla when it was struggling: fortune.com - Elon musk companies billion government funding tesla spacex doge

That guy's “FREE” time is pretty darn expensive.

And unethical.

And in some cases, perhaps illegal.

washingtonpost.com - Musk starlink doge faa verizon

electrek.co - Teslas million armored EV US gov contract was indeed shady
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