ep. 221 - One Trillion Reasons to Hate Elon Musk

We will never colonize space. Smug folks love to look down on drunks who play the lottery. "The odds are a million to one! You'll never win! Better to save your money and put it towards something real, ya bum!" The math of a drunk playing scratch-offs is far superior to those who tell you we will "bring the light of consciousness to the stars." Our bodies can never permanently leave this earth . And yet, this is the contract Elon Musk has made with the global economy. Space X's $2.7 trillion valuation is premised on Musk colonizing Mars with one million human inhabitants. Maybe he will nuke the brains of one million Neuralink users and imprison them on the planet and fulfill his fiduciary obligations, but you'd be better off putting all your money into a POWERBALL lottery ticket. Why do people continue to believe in Musk? What happens when this promise that holds the global economy hostage fails to come to fruition? Fellow Musk-hater, Jacob Silverman, joins the show once again to gawk in horror at the existence of the world's richest man.