Option 2: the market has control, and optimizes for short term starlink revenue and the launch business.
I prefer Option 1.
Option 4: Elon takes over a social network and tries to Orbanize the West with it.
They can't really tie the cuts to actually useful programs. That was a big reason for the cuts.
Every article concerning Musk or his companies needs to forever be prefaced with this fact.
(It does raise questions about how Elon might manage the food supply to Mars, if that ever happened)
Don't ask the public for money and then not provide any of the corporate requirements under the SEC for the proper operation of the markets.
You can't have both.
As a rule, investors optimize for long term growth since that's what maximizes valuations. All the megacap companies are judged by future growth.
The effect is companies tend to exaggerate and lie about what they can achieve in the long term to juice their own stock. Elon's def got the juice.
And then sued the government into considering using them.
He's also setting the rules so shareholders can't sue him.
Concentrated power can indeed get a lot more done at speed; it does not say anything about if the things being done more of and faster are sensible, and while Musk used to make bets that seemed to be risky to him but with positive expected return, he's now openly talking about things like wanting the Tesla "robot army" under his control and the chance of AI killing everyone, where it becomes everyone else's problem if he's wrong.
