> yet agreeing to only get paid when he does go to Mars.

He already owns hundreds of billions of dollars worth of SpaceX. He "gets paid" whether or not these goals are achieved (a million people on mars definitely won't be achieved this century, as the place is fucking awful; one thousand is vanishingly unlikely, one million is flat-out not happening). In fact, hyping the company up ahead of IPO gets him paid, to the tune of thousands of working people's lifetime earnings.

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randerson 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> a million people on mars definitely won't be achieved this century, as the place is fucking awful

Mars could make for an interesting prison, though. Like the Australia of two centuries ago. If nobody volunteers to live there I wouldn't put it past Musk to meet his target that way.

	▲	John23832 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		People already lived in Australia before Britain shipped its prisoners there. It was habitable. Nobody is spending trillions to build a prison on another planet.

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sgc 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Subterfuge so simple it is designed to target only the most foolish.