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Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is Elon Musk a Symptom of a Broken Society?
Elon musk is a real person with real ideas who leads two major companies that have both undertaken extraordinary engineering feats. The presumption that jeff bazos and elon musk get to decide the extraterrestrial fate of humankind is a bizarrely regressive notion. There's a whole long tradition of democratic deliberation over what kind of a mission in space human kind should we have. So far forgotten that this is actually a matter of public goods and public deliberation and democratic deliberation, that even the metiwill cover you.
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