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The Boring Company is a money making machine?? Any evidence of this? It looks like a disastrous failure to me:

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/11/elon-musks-the-boring-comp...

https://www.curbed.com/2022/01/elon-musk-las-vegas-tunnel-ce...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbbrandon/2021/04/13/elon-mu...

https://www.jumpstartmag.com/what-we-can-learn-from-elon-mus...

A disastrous failure worth $6b! That's my point. Neurolink and SolarCity are also disastrous failures. But Boring Company has gotten contract in Las Vegas, Chicago, LA, and more. And despite all these failures Miami, amongst a few other FL and CA cities, is still in talks about a contract.

That's the business. Continue selling a dream. Talk to any actual engineer with relevant knowledge and they'd likely tell you it was a terribly thought out idea from the start. But those engineers aren't the ones signing gov't contracts

> A disastrous failure worth $6b!

Valued at $5.9B, not worth, a massive difference.

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