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Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it. (mashable.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I can't fathom having the power to save our at least change millions of lives...but instead choose to leech more wealth from the people that need it most. And systematically make the world worse. It's a sickness.

There are no good billionaires.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I would build SO much low income, homeless, and transition housing. I would also start my own line of bamboo products and packaging to replace plastic.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The most important part of what you said is that you’d build “SO much” housing. If we’d just let the free market build all the housing it wants without letting NIMBYs get in the way, we’d have largely solved the housing crisis.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Except we already have more houses than there are homeless people. The problem is the empty houses have ridiculous price tags due to corporate landlords and landlords refusing the sell and only rent (also at ridiculous prices)

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago

    Vacancy rates in the places where people actually want to live are really low. Besides, are people not allowed to have vacation homes?

    Market price is a function of supply and demand. We’ve been under building housing for years.

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