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SpaceX boss Elon Musk said Monday that he’ll give one of his shares in the company to every child in the U.S. next year.
That would amount to the CEO giving away about $10.5 billion worth of shares.
Musk did not provide further details on how the share giveaway would happen.

How on earth are children supposed to manage holding a share in SpaceX??!!

Ooooh managing a whole share? Are you serious?They let it ride until they are of age to educate themselves on stock management. By then it may be worth a substantial amount. What are you offering? Zilch, nada? That’s what I thought.

It's a party trick

It proves that capitalism's 'innovation' only created useless, frivolous products that are out of reach of working people (95-7% of the West's population) and serve only to bump the stock price of very rich shareholders.

Capitalism has raised the living standards of all in a way unmatched by any other system

No one's disputing that, but you also shouldn't dispute that it has generated large-scale inequality and the raised living standards in Western (formerly colonial) countries are often due to exploitation of labour, and resource extraction, from colonised nations.

What kept those colonized nations from extracting their own resources and raising living standards?

Perhaps because they didn't feel so compelled to massacre millions just so they can strip mine a place and leave it useless for centuries to come.

Some people have to live where they live, and they take what they need as they need it, not just dig it all up and sell it for a quick profit so they can have nothing for the future.

Why would they have to massacre millions to extract their own resources? Your logic isn’t logical.

ummm,,,,

By your logic, you wouldn't complain if Arabs had turned up in ships and stolen all of Europe's wealth? You're genuinely stupid.

Arabs did turn up in ships in Europe and stole a lot of wealth and took slaves. You didn’t know that?

I raise the question again, by your logic, you are justifying colonisation. Taken to its logical conclusion, you wouldn't complain if Arabs turned up in ships and stole Europe's wealth by resource extraction?

Look up the history of the Automobile before saying stupid stuff.

Useless? A flying car? 😂

What serious problems will it solve?

I don’t know maybe Traffic? Cut down travel time to Reduce “global warming” who knows but it certainly isn't as useless as most leftists.

Public transport already exists bro. Besides, traffic is not really a serious problem on a global scale.

Making traffic three dimensional is going to solve the traffic problem? Can anyone imagine the whirlwind of a blizzard that air traffic control would be like? One single accident, and the cascade effect from that?

Reduce global warming? Do you know how much fuel it would take to lift a car let alone go any significant distance with it? Elon's magic flying automobile can do its little tricks for a few seconds, and that's it. It is not designed or intended to really fly any real distance. A couple of $1,000 worth of fuel packed into a mini dirigible drag along tank just to fly to the Walmart, sure, okay.

Same with them jetpacks that we were supposed to be flying around just like the Jetsons - they last like what, 15 seconds is it before the fuel runs out and that's the end of that little trip?

It's this decade's gimmick toy. Every decade or two going back a century there's a yet another new flying car prototype which quite literally goes nowhere and we never hear from again.