"But, Musk added, “the mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.”
“It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (a six-month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2-day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization, and the Moon is faster.”
I hate articles like this because they use the steelman effect and hope you don't realize it.
"Steel manning (or steelmanning) is a rhetorical technique that involves strengthening the opponent’s position to its strongest possible form before critiquing it."
Allow me to explain.
In the beginning of the article it glosses over what it deems as the three waves of philanthropy.
What it does not mention is this is an entirely new and untraditional way of viewing the american "three waves of philanthropy". Traditionally this is the version used in philanthropy research:
As you can see " Obama era" would lie within the current 3rd wave.
This is problematic and highly gratuitous to the Gates foundation. I would consider the Gates foundation as being Philanthrocapitalists. Philanthrocapitalism is a way of doing philanthropy, which mirrors the way that business is done in the for-profit world. It may involve venture philanthropy that actively invests in social programs to pursue specific philanthropic goals that would yield return on investment over the long term, or in a more passive form whereby "social investors" benefit from investing in socially-responsible programs.
The Gates foundation recorded 8.08B in revenue with only 8.015B in spending creating a surplus and that's just in the foundation itself. While Gates himself has verbalized his wishes to close the foundation by 2045 - talk is cheap and actions speak louder so only time will tell.
What I think this article and its writer is TRYING to do is not mapping philanthropy across U.S. history but rather mapping how tech ideology evolved across three political eras: Bush → Obama → Trump.
This isn't the problem. The problem is taking a definition of a topic you know nothing about and adapting it for your own use and then pretending its a standard form of measurement.
I had no idea Jimmy Carr was a graduated physics student! Surely he's not just some comedian who is talking about a subject he doesn't truly understand and then trying and convince others that his level of knowledge is far greater than those that study this subject.
I don't understand what this means "It doesn't seem possible for Spacex to revolutionize the world, change it: sure they do...for 20+ years but they fail to revolutionize for 20+ years.And the reasons are obvious."
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