Neither the article or my post about it mention Musk. 
I was responding to Jay.
Indeed, but he only mentioned Musk as an example who you seem to focus on when the main topic here is supposed to be the article I posted and which is being repeatedly ignored by Musk defenders. That is what he was commenting on, not Musk.
I think you accused me of being ‘obsessed’ with Musk. I don’t agree with that but there are people here who respond to anything about him, or in this case which might be about him as if he needs their help when in reality he has far more ability to put forward his opinions and views above anything we might say.
Do you think Musk needs your help, or that your advice or guidance will influence him?
I believe you were the first one to mention Musk in this post.
Edit: I should correct that. You mentioned Musk before me, but to be fair, I think @neo mentioned him first. You were second.
If you mean this, then that’s an oblique reference to him and others which for some reason is picked up on and prompts people to defend him.
Yet the article which I made a big point about highlighting for useful insight and debate goes ignored again and again.
The Bank of Russia and the country’s Ministry of Finance have reconsidered their positions toward cryptocurrency, acknowledging it to be necessary to legalize the use of cryptocurrencies in cross-border settlements.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/russia-to-legalize-use-of-crypto-in-international-trade
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I wonder why? 
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I believe Iran did this last week or thereabouts too. The petrodollar and swift-network don’t seem to be working for them anymore.
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Be careful of accounts that use “reportedly”. Reported by whom? Would be good to get confirmation from a French source.
“per a report by local news outlet TASS.”
Do you mean that preppers article?
To quote it:
Taking their cue from Tesla founder Elon Musk colonising Mars, Palantir’s Peter Thiel reversing the ageing process
Not that it matters a lot and only a short mention.
I have no problem if (especially) the USA tax the extremely rich away to less extremely rich, so that such ‘rich’-categorizations/studies are certainly less useful 
Michael Jackson allegedly planned to be cloned and frozen in a cryogenic chamber. That wasn’t a success, but he will be remembered longer than most people (e.g. through his music).
Thanks for reading and correcting me! It’s not significant though is it? It’s not the point of the article or my posting it, yet it’s come up on this thread rather than any comment - so far - on the article itself.
No, that mentioning of Musk doesn’t seem significant to me.
I could be misunderstanding it, but this article gives the impression that the potential reason (nuclear explosion, environmental collapse, …) these guys prep for is their own doing. They probably have a bigger impact (being rich) than normal people and could be more altruistic in spending their money in trying to prevent such potential reasons in the first place. But these limited number of rich preppers won’t make that much of a difference in the overall picture IMHO. Not to excuse them, but ‘them’ shouldn’t also be used as an excuse to not critically look at possible other reasons of certain problems. If studying behavior (for categorization or whatever) of ultra rich people can convince some more people to support taxing them to at least a bit less ultrarich, fine by me. But I’m already convinced of that, so I’m not that interested myself in such categorizations.
I don’t see too many people opposing the proposal to tax the ultra-rich more. When you get down to the details of how this can be done, though, you see it will be a daunting task. The problem: the “wealth” of most of these gazillionaires consists of an ungodly amount of stock options in their own companies. How do you tax stock before it has been sold, or even purchased? Another problem is that any legislation that tackles this problem with the intent of socking it to the gazillies is that it will also affect many small investors. All employees at Tesla, for example, get stock options as part of their compensation. Is it fair to punish them as part of the package? All very sticky questions.
Fair play to him for sticking to his principles and remaining sane. We need more people like this to stop the insanity.
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Yes - stock options are merely a tax avoidance scam.
The petit bourgois are as much a part of the problem as the oligarchs, Just look at the UK housing market- utterly distorted by all the comfortable middle-class who are able to take out buy-to-rent mortgages and become part of the landlord class F|_|CK them one and all - if you have a BTL mortgage you are as much part of the problem as the oligarchs. Lazy shite that would prefer not to work for a living - and these scum call us lower classes “workshy”?!?!
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like my father always said “some people would rather stop you making a pound than go out and earn one themselves”
I think a lot of land lords are selling up now as the tax system was changed to make it a lot less profitable than it used to be.
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Good - maybe we will see fewer of the AirBnB parasites in the Highlands and elsewhere.
As for your da – Its not about going out and making a pound for yourself, its about HOW yougo about earning a pound for yourself.
Rental income should be taxed at 80% + to sort out the AirBnB parasites. Dont get e started on council tax for holiday homes… Colonists out!!!
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ill agree there from what I heard through in Edinburgh leasing a flat is nearly impossible in city canter as Air BnB has priced regular people who want to live there year round out the market.
so something should be done on that front for sure but I’m not overly clued up on what.
never got that lesson from him as I haven’t spoke to him in years 
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All Tory voters to be dumped on the Garvellachs and told “Entrepreneur your way out of that, shitebags” ? ← just a thott
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since the SNP are in power in Scotland how would that help ?
I vote Tory when we get there I think we will harness tidal flows at the Garvellachs with a tidal generator. would make us a nice bit of energy
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