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Can we discuss that like all Musk enterprises, there already exists a technology and means of giving people something that doesn't invent these kinds of problems? The reason why rural people don't have internet in the US is not because running lines is really hard. It's because a for-profit business doesn't fined it profitable to run lines to sparse rural areas. It east into their profit margins. It's also not like those companies haven't been heavily subsidized to do the job either. The money was there the businesses just refused to use it because of the lack of strings attached to the grants. That's doesn't change that wires fucking exist and work if you take the time to install them. Yes there are places that's it is actually impossible to run lines to, but we have wireless solutions for those people.

Instead the solution is to give Musk all the money to fly dozens/hundreds of rockets into space, dropping off space trash, and using satellite dishes to receive the world's highest ping. But there's snow so the dishes need to be heated, and now they have to be made animal-proof. The solution causes more problems and requires more technology precisely because moneyed interests run the world. It's not an actual technical problem that needs Innovation™️ to solve.

In fact if we dump all those resources used by Musk into the existing technology, then it would improve and be more useful to everyone, even the non-rural people. How many people with terrestrial fiber connections or 5G are going to give that up for Starlink? Fucking none. So the grand special innovative solution isn't even useful to people.