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[Doomblade187]

I genuinely don't know what you're trying to get at with this, please elaborate.

Elon Musk gets his money from the government, to the tune of billions of dollars in subsidies and contracts. Kroger is 99% publically owned, its CEO is a millionaire but not a billionaire, he can't afford to buy any politicians. Elon Musk can. The real money is in government grift. Handing over power to the government to control more of the economy without serious thought about who gets to exercise those powers for what purpose is a recipe for more elite ownership, not less.

The kroger ceo can absolutely afford to buy politicians, but it's also not important if he personally can. *The company does for itself*. It's never one bad actor, it's a whole system of capitalist regulatory capture and lobbying.

And guess what, musk profiting off of government welfare doesn't mean that the government shouldn't control more things, it just means that the agencies in charge should have actual corruption laws in place. But honestly speaking, a corrupt and nationalized economy sector would probably still be more efficient than whatever the current system is. (SEE ALSO THE TRAINS)

Oh yeah elon stock prices are entirely pr lol.

[McTraveller]

This just popped up in my feed, and apparently the answer to are we running out of sand? is "no, not really."

The reason is basically: we can make sand, and to any specification you'd like. More importantly, though, you can also change other parameters - notably, water to cement ratio is more important than sand type for strength.  So unless you qualify it as "we are running out of sand for concrete at a given cost" then you're just being misleading.

(Practical Engineering is a great channel! He covers not just the tech, but also the other aspects; in this video he does talk about externalities and other tradeoffs and the business impact of concrete.)

[Frumple]

There's... fairly similar things going on with basically everything we're "running out" of, iirc. There's not much that's actually scarce, resource wise, it's just a matter of scarce in easily accessible venues.

Does mean that, functionally, we're running out of some stuff because past a point most usage is going to be too expensive to continue at scale (the resource that can't be accessed by or otherwise benefit 99% of the population might as well not exist, really), but that's somewhat different than the clickbait takes present it as, yes, heh.