There really is no hope for people who want to see the Dubai and the UAE fail. They’re the same kind of people who short Tesla stock and want to see Elon Musk fail.
Imagine being so envious of something that, instead of investing in its greatness, you let yourself be so consumed by jealousy that you’d rather embrace mediocrity and wish for others to fail.
Most airlines are only worth what their loyalty programs are - it's the easiest gateway to access high value customers of a country.
The airlines themselves break even but the loyalty program is where all the value lies.
Elon is making the greatest loyalty program the world has ever seen.
Robotaxi - Tesla - Starlink - X finance - XAI Enterprise - whatever else he spins off.
Just 37B (1%) to hook customers to businesses with a combined USD 3T market cap.
If humanity colonises another planet —discovers life — decides to exploit them—plunders their resources — kill their leaders— destroy their culture —- but we give them the internet and our form of government and societal rules.
Is that good or bad thing?
No single paper did more to change my worldview than “The Case for Colonialism”. Growing up, I believed the West’s wealth was the result of plunder. Gilley convincingly argues that colonialism was actually far more beneficial to the colonized than to the colonizers. Link below