Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?

Don't forget the whole thing about aggressively trying to undercut the expansion of public transit in LA in favor of his groundbreaking, completely unprecedented, entirely privatized invention where people travel - get this - IN TUNNELS.

Or is that Zuckerberg? I get my future corporate overlords confused.

Have any of you heard of this Leland Stanford chap?
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Claims he can connect the whole continent by rail.
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I hear tell he's out to start his own university, to boot.
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I suspect history will have a thing or two to say about his hubris!
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Elon is a symptom.

Wealth theft and tax evasion by the 1% has reached such a point that our state governments can’t afford large new infrastructure projects while Mormon Batman here has enough horded wealth that he can start them at whim

Don't forget that the tunnel thing is inherently pretty dangerous and actually can't work without the completely ridiculous and dangerous element.