• Zron@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        They essentially already are.

        Tesla likely would not be selling cars if the government didn’t offer EV tax incentives.

        SpaceX’s largest customer is the U.S Government.

        Musk has torpedoed every other company he’s touched.

        If the only reason you are in business is to sell things that the government is helping pay for, why are you even a business. He’s blown through his budget that NASA gave him for Starship and still doesn’t have a working product.

        The Cybertruck Founders Edition doesn’t have the Self Driving feature that made it 20k more expensive, and has a real chance of being a fraud trial.

        Why are we giving private companies boatloads of tax dollars to develop vaporware?