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Also the fact that they're not going to invest $500B, and this is mostly a puff piece.

As Elon said, they don't the money.

Talk is cheap.

$500B is not.

>>onlyre+(OP)
$500B may be a lot, but at the national level it's not that much if you spread over a few years. Even now, it's "only" 1 week worth of US GDP. It depends how much they expect to get back.

>>HPsqua+qg
This isn't national funding.

$500B is a lot - no matter how you slice it.

It's a lot easier to talk pie in the sky than to actually get $500B to spend.