Imagine if Elon had put all that money to work on mass transit solutions instead of cars for each and every person, along with tunnels for those cars. Of course, you will never make the same riches, but interesting to imagine how different the impact might be.
Arguably the Hyperloop was publicized specifically for the opposite: to stoke opposition to traditional high speed rail, while at the same time knowing it is completely impractical.
True, but I don't regard that as an original Musk idea. It's been done before elsewhere and, to a lesser extent, done before in the US. He's not even the first racist head of a US car company, that was Henry Ford.
