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> You should be careful about being too glad. Starlink is a money sink and won't even have positive cash flow for many years.

> SpaceX has used Starlink as a driver for investment rounds and is regularly raising money.

Takes like these make no sense. They assume some kind of lack of intelligence among people at SpaceX. As if they don't know how economics work. Rather than assuming stupidity, maybe you should rethink your premise?



Starlink may just be a run of the mill Musk fraud like FSD - entirely about raising investment or stock values. Yes, they ship something, but they may not ever get to the promised end state.

The math doesn’t work out for starlink and people have noted this for years at this point.


> Starlink may just be a run of the mill Musk fraud like FSD - entirely about raising investment or stock values.

Believing that FSD is a fraud in the first place is where you go wrong here. Frauds generally require something to not work at all or not exist. FSD works and exists, just not on the timelines promised but continued to be refined.



I don't get how you you arrived at any implied lack of intelligence.

Musk himself has repeatedly said that Starlink is a risky bet, and that satellite network operators usually go bankrupt.

Taking risks does not imply lack of intelligence.




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