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Except for X, most of his companies have involved large government subsidies or contracts. Tesla, SpaceX, Boring, Hyperloop.


It sounds like they decided to compete for a contract that was otherwise designed to just give money to traditional telecoms for doing nothing.


He doesn't, he has publicly said the company didn't lobby for this program. If it exists though would you rather have the most efficient player be award the contract or some legacy telco who lobbied for the largesse and is woefully slow and inefficient?




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