But yet people are already saying we should do that….

An extraterrestrial nature preserve? Uh, sort of like when colonizers come to a new land and the natives are rounded up and deported to “reservations” to make room for the new owners? Or are these places to concentrate the locals as in “concentration camps”? Both ideas worked out so well before, who says history doesn’t repeat itself…

Point is people seem to not want to accept that essentially this will be colonization 3.0 and saying day 1 we need to set aside areas for native species is uncomfortably close to reality repeating history

Your right, they both seem to fill that “empty space” I have.

Mmmmm I could go for an order of “Lorem ipsum” right about now.

Should have had the last scene with them being baristas at Star$$$s, as working their is a form of economic slavery

Never said it was

I am a bit of both

No, they can reserve the funds for future operations.

Ask your state regulator and legislators why they allow it…something something free market, something freedom, something something low regulation

That is a state regulator issue….ask your legislators

You apparently didn’t understand what I wrote. To expect any business to operate at negative profit is insane. Any business has to generate income to be a going concern. How many years of losses would you expect a business to absorb before they collapse in debt?

Wow you always downvote comments that provide a different perspective….ok

It’s complicated. I see what you mean but, given the example in the article, the $1.5 billion dollar building being built as an example, the money will pay workers who build it (payroll taxes), buy materials (sales taxes) and such. It is not that they are just accumulating property to defer taxes, they are spending the money that has economic value to the community.

Wow downvoted because people don’t like the answer…well look in the mirror Buck-o, they are allowed to act this way thanks to YOUR state legislature and state regulators. Ask THEM why they allow it.

True but that is not the first thing people think of when they hear “non-profit”.

This is a common misconception that “non-profit” means “no profit”. That is NOT what it means. It only means that whatever profits are generated are plowed back into the business and not distributed to shareholders, owners, or company officers via dividends and such.

This article clears it up for me. When Elon said “..it won’t be a free-for-all hellscape”, he meant it will be a paid hellscape.

Hmmm, did he do the costume himself or did someone help him out it together and sort of set him up because they knew he would garner some sympathy once he was identified with cognitive impairment?

What they leave out of this “article?”, is that the USPS essentially uses the same key for EVERY blue mailbox called an “arrow key”. These keys are available, cough, China, cough

For those that don’t know what mechanical relays mean for telephones:

https://youtu.be/bvPH-tsD9ZM

The title is unclear. You just spent how many words to explain a TITLE, does that not suggest it is cryptic? No one mentioned the graph itself….

Your not thinking it is cryptic does not discount that other people find it cryptic. Your opinion is equal to any others, no more-no less.

The title COULD have been “Minimum number of words needed to be learned to be able to read a book in a foreign language”. Longer, sure but also much clearer as to intent

“Returns to learning”….means exactly nothing to the average person. The TITLE is especially cryptic

And now the downvote because someone pointed out that the title is non informative….what a surprise

No idea what it means, too cryptic