Quinn Slobodian
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708 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Quinn Slobodian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
And that's really what, I mean, I'm sure we're going to be talking about that in a second, but that's really the move of SpaceX, right?
Which goes public on Friday.
at an expected valuation of $1.75 trillion, the biggest IPO in history by quite some measure.
Why is he doing it?
I mean, he's trying to become too big to fail such that that inevitable bailout somewhere in the future becomes structurally necessary, right?
Yeah, no, they're certainly already betting on that internally.
But what's amazing is that that's also seemingly the kind of public conversation, right?
It's just like, cross our fingers and hope that the rocket keeps rising.
Instead of, frankly, places like the EU are looking at this differently.
They're like, why are we so dependent on these erratic maniacs out in California?
Let's slowly and painstakingly try to build out alternatives.
Let's switch from Microsoft to Linux, even though it's a pain to learn and it doesn't actually work as well as Microsoft.
Let's try to add to our few hundred low Earth orbit satellites to catch Musk's 10,000 because we want sovereignty and we don't want dependency to go on forever.
In America, that conversation sort of doesn't happen.
It just seems to be like...
put in much more moralistic terms.
So if you're a critic like you or I, then it's just about how evil these people are and how much hatred lives in their hearts rather than trying to pick apart the structural power and saying like, okay, where's the vulnerabilities?
How could we nationalize part of that, bring more of that in-house, take advantage of the good things that they've contributed as far as engineering breakthroughs and optimization and shed the extremely toxic things that they've added to this model.
I just think it needs to be a lot more clean cut.
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