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What permit? Permit to do what? Does anyone have control over these guys, or is it just money talking? I don’t care about their junk in space, but here on Earth there are some forms of life that don’t appreciate such arrogance and would like to understand why government is in bed with Musk and who is going to benefit from that

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geeze. people get permits to dig holes in the ground for private companies all the time, like say buildings? It's not that special.

Right, but here the goal is not to dig a hole in their parking. The goal is to go to bed with politicians to get approval and public funding for big private infrastructure, without asking the public at all

I think many people stand to benefit from a NYC-DC transport link, and the economies of those cities stand to benefit a lot too.

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