• @Clent
    link
    English
    222 years ago

    I don’t see the conspiracy.

    My assumption is the investors immediately got what they wanted. They are not stupid.

    Money men don’t hand over money to these front men based on promises. This isn’t a Hollywood movie. There was an immediate pay off.

    They got SpaceX stock.

    • @aricene
      link
      English
      342 years ago

      Investors will absolutely hand over money to front men making bad, even obviously insane, promises, though. People are always more easily manipulated than they like to believe, but people who’ve convinced themselves they’re infallible titans of industry are even more vulnerable to it. (Especially the ones who think that they see through the scam and won’t be left holding the bag.)

    • @Arbiter
      link
      English
      242 years ago

      Money men get conned so fucking often it isn’t even funny.

    • @Buffalox
      link
      English
      52 years ago

      Actually they may not be worth much either.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYURUiOjZSw

      Thunderfoot has spend a lot of time analyzing most things Musk, and SpaceX specifically does not have a market (TAM) to achieve what they claim.

    • @Sarcastik
      link
      English
      12 years ago

      So you’ve never heard of theranos or we work?