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You know a publicly traded company has to have fiduciary responsibility to its stakeholders.

That being said it seems financially negligent to force employees back into the office if its going to cause negative productivity or as the article says "cause your star employees to quit".

Karl Bode clearly has a hard on for Elon. He personally attacks him in every. Single. Paragraph. Without stating things like the first actual comment.

Sidibe has provided MORE USEFUL INFORMATION IN 2 UNDERSTANDABLE PARAGRAPHS!

Sidibe should go work in journalims. I know a job you can take.

Strong words there bud. How do we know your vibe coded app is better? Any metrics or this all just 'hype'

Would have been nice if the article actually explained itself instead of making a statement and then assuming the reader has the exact same amount of knowledge about the subject as the author.

Just because they are not there YET doesn't mean they have failed period. Every. Single. Business. That Elon is running has SOMETHING to do with creating a civilization on a different planet.

*SpaceX supplies the starship

*Starlink supplies communications

*xAI provides automation and the mesh brain of their robotsTesla builds 3 things: -a battery pack to store energy -an electric vehicle -the Optimus robot

*Boring company digs really big holes because there is no atmosphere to protect you on Mars like there is on earth, the first settlements will most likely be underground.

**Neuralink so humans can connect to the AI and other systems more seamlessly.

Every. Single. One. Useful in one way or another for interstellar travel and or living on another planet.

So explain to me exactly how YOU think SpaceX has "failed with Mars".

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:

Wave 1 (1890–1930): Institution‑building

Wave 2 (1930–1980): Scientific philanthropy

Wave 3 (1980–present): Tech‑driven, global, scalable philanthropy

This model is long‑arc, spanning 140 years.

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/financials/annual-repo...

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-rel...

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.

Way cool!