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Nevermind how the Senate is already there to balance "unfettered democracy" and is awful at it.
Like seriously, if we wanted the senate to be the voice of the small to hold up public worst instinct, we'd add seats from territories, indigenous nations, and labor unions, and give it a veto on what the house passes instead of making it pass stuff itself.
Also upping the number of senators per delegation to a multiple of three because FUCKING SERIOUSLY WHY ONLY TWO‽
I'm not American, but doesn't the Constitution say "we the people", not "we the high status males"?
This is very on-brand for Musk honestly, he had a bit of value back when PayPal was decent and Tesla was the only EV company...
Since he started launching trash into orbit, he's progressively gotten more and more insane in his ideas.
And yes, I consider starlink to basically be orbiting trash.... In case anyone didn't get it.
He has no business acumen, spending millions of dollars to put a wireless mesh in low earth orbit, and having to regularly replace the debris in orbit, costing millions more per year, then charging people out the ass for service, or putting so many users on it that you might as well be on dialup.... Good plan. I'm a network/wireless tech as my day job, and putting enough users onto the system at an appropriate/affordable cost, to justify the expense of doing it, and maintaining it, is really dumb. You'll overload your frequency allocation, exhausting any bandwidth that was available, and the service will suck. Reducing user load just increases costs to the end user month over month because each LEO satellite is worth hundreds of thousands, if not millions, and will only be in orbit for a few years, maybe 5 years at the high end.
I'm not a business person, but if each satellite costs $200k to build and put in orbit (it's probably a lot more) and lasts 4 years, you need to make $50k/yr from that satellite to break even, of you're charging about $100/mo for access to the service, that means every satellite requires 500 users to be subscribed in order to break even.... Then ask yourself, can each satellite handle servicing 500 users?
No. The answer is no. They can't. You'll never break even at that price. And IMO, that's a pretty generous estimate on costs.
It's a bad plan from the beginning. Unless you can subsidize everything by launching the satellites along side orbital launches that other people have paid for, so you basically get to orbit for free, and/or somehow subsidize the cost of building the satellites, then you're pretty much always going to lose money.
We’ve done that. What about a republic led by women instead? Clearly if the problem is with democracy instead of just Mr. Musk’s misogyny that should be fine.
In general I don’t take anyone’s suggestions seriously when they propose taking away other people’s agency
See, the funny thing about status is it changes. The Rawlsian veil of ignorance once again shows the moral choice.
That is fascism!
Why would he cuck for a system he wouldn't be a part of?
Is he illiterate? Did he ever open dictionary? If he did, he would have found that republic means representative democracy.
He needs his illiteracy liquidated. Sadly, likbez ended about 100 years ago.
Republic can also just mean not ruled by a monarch. The Dutch Republic wasn’t a democracy.
https://www.usconstitution.net/republic-vs-democracy/
We are a republic been that way from the start
