Summary
Elon Musk called for privatizing Amtrak and the U.S. Postal Service, saying America should privatize “everything we possibly can.”
Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, he criticized U.S. passenger rail as “embarrassing” compared to other countries.
While Musk didn’t outline steps for privatization, he acknowledged it would require congressional approval.
His remarks align with Donald Trump, who recently suggested reviewing USPS privatization.
Meanwhile, the UK is re-nationalizing privatized infrastructure because private monopolies provide even worse service than public ones.
And I say almost everything owned by a billionaire should be expropriated.
Why does the media listen to Musk and not people like me?
Elon wants the USPO privatized. And I want Elon euthanized. What beautiful Symmetry.
Maintaining a post office is the only specific service, aside from national defense, the federal government must provide mentioned in the Constitution.
The scammer who singlehandedly killed US high-speed rail with his impossible fantasy hyperloop bullshit that caused hundreds of idiots to invest billions of dollars into technology that any third grader could tell you was bullshit says that US rail is terrible?
Color me surprised
Don’t get me wrong, it IS terrible, but he is part of the various reasons why it’s terrible.
Wanna make the US better?
Look at Europe, for starters. Make walkable and cyclable cities that are designed for humans not for cars. Then have normal speed (< 200kph) trains on an hourly or even half hourly service between neighboring cities. Add High speed tracks between states with services every few hours and have busses for mid distance.
Then start reducing road width because you don’t need 20 lanes anymore all of the sudden
Whatever you do, though, do NOT listen to what this scammer wants
Wanna make the US better?
Look at Europe, for starters. Make walkable and cyclable cities that are designed for humans not for cars. Then have normal speed (< 200kph) trains on an hourly or even half hourly service between neighboring cities.
I mean, for starters, there’s approximately the same distance between Los Angeles and Phoenix, than between Frankfurt and Paris, the difference is the geographic variation, climate and other factors such as Arizona and California being separated entities even though they are in a federal union, that wouldn’t make it worth it or work.
I can easily travel from Frankfurt tonparis by train
Why wouldn’t I be able to do the same from Los Angeles to Phoenix? There literally arejtbany reasons beyond political unwillingness
And I say that Elon Musk should have all of his bones removed in alphabetical order.
Tesla and SpaceX should be Nationalized
Alternatively, let’s nationalize Starlink
Eminent Domain SpaceXand give it to NASA. Pay him using the new StarLink coin at a price of $100k per coin at let the value go with the market rate just like the Trumpcoins did…
I don’t think that will help much when the nation turns fascist though.
Ah yes, cuz things like privatized prisons have worked sooooooo well so far 🙄
My understanding is that Amtrak is what happened when the private railroad operators were failing, and the govt needed to step in to stop the passenger railroad network from collapsing completely.
Its by and large not profitable. Air travel, for better or worse, eats its lunch.
Some passenger amtrak lines are profitable. Privatising it would likely just mean cutting the ones that aren’t, to the detriment of the rail system.
For worse, it’s definitely for worse for the environment.
he criticized U.S. passenger rail as “embarrassing” compared to other countries.
He’s actually right about that but 100% wrong about why: US passenger rail is embarrassing due to
- a pitiful lack of political will for public investment in it (in spite of the vast majority of the population being in favor),
- billionaires like himself and others with competing interests spending ridiculous amounts of money lobbying against it
- private and ridiculously under-regulated freight companies (such as Norfolk Southern of East Palestine catastrophe infamy) being allowed to privately own the tracks that tax funded public works projects built, and thus setting schedules and speeds that are not conducive to effective passenger transit.
In short, the Apartheid Nepo Nazi wants to pretend to fix it by doing more of what ruined it.
It’s worth noting that they’re never talking about actual privatization, which is when a thing that was formerly a government service is turned over to private enterprise, but a grotesquely inefficient hybrid system in which the service is still funded by the government, and the only thing that changes is that rather than the budget being turned over to a government agency, it’s turned over to whichever private contractor offers the best bribe and kickback package.
Prime example… Amtrak.
Ah, the old SpaceX switcharoo
Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, Elon Musk criticized U.S. passenger rail as “embarrassing” compared to other countries.
Elon Musk? The same Elon Musk who helped cancel a high-speed rail transit project by touting his quickly-abandoned, far-fetched sci-fi transit system?
Other… socialist countries he means?
It’s known as the fascist superposition.
It’s a wave function that only collapses into communist evil or capitalist freedom whenever either is beneficial to a fascist, personally.
Ah Elon, you make me wonder why we dont have more gallows for deranged fucks like you.
We should seize his means of production instead
As well as his means of reproduction
Preferably with a vice
My phone notification just read “fiddlesticks in politics: Preferably…” so there’s that 😂
Grab him by the
pussyballs? Good idea.
