←back to thread

Elon Musk on How to Build the Future

(www.ycombinator.com)
1106 points sama | 1 comments | 15 Sep 16 18:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.27s | source
Show context
arca_vorago ◴[15 Sep 16 19:46 UTC] No.12509208[source]▶
Give the people with ideas funding and the future will happen. Instead what has been happening is the uber-elite have been hoarding their money and not putting it back into the economy. This is how to delay the future.

To me the future is welcomed with a guarded mentality, in that for all the benifits purported to follow it, but the reality is that as we progress technologically we are going to create a new wealth schism in the people of the world the blowback of that will come back one day and bite us. If we can push the future and lessen income inequality and increase the wealth, not of investors, but average people, that is the way forward.

replies(1): >>12509287 #
merpnderp ◴[15 Sep 16 19:54 UTC] No.12509287[source]▶
From the buzz, I thought VC's were funding every 18 year old with a wild idea. Is it really hard to get serious work funded due to a lack of available capital?
replies(1): >>12509469 #
1. dwaltrip ◴[15 Sep 16 20:16 UTC] No.12509469[source]▶
They are funding every easily digestible, consumer friendly app that has a trendy design. This is a small subset of all interesting and worthwhile ideas.