# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** elon-musk\ **Created:** [August 13, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634 "2024-08-13T00:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 175
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3502 "2026-07-24T21:50:09Z")
Sounds very much like him. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3503 "2026-07-24T22:00:56Z")
No money, just company scrip. Only earned by working for the company, and only redeemable at the company store (where nothing else is accepted). The coal-mining town scenario writ large. Or District 12, take your pick. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3504 "2026-07-25T01:55:51Z")
Admittedly it’s hard to envision how a freewheeling market could work in a place where _ **air** _, and potable water, have to be manufactured. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3505 "2026-07-25T02:11:42Z")
You’re just not seeing the “opportunities” inherent in such a marketplace. 😲 For the right kind of guy. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3506 "2026-07-25T02:27:46Z")
The very notion of an atmosphere is inherently communistic. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3507 "2026-07-25T02:28:21Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > You’re just not seeing the “opportunities” inherent in such a marketplace. [![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*g5H385l17AtZ8jdLu_5hSA.gif) ](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*g5H385l17AtZ8jdLu_5hSA.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3508 "2026-07-25T07:12:44Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Admittedly it’s hard to envision how a freewheeling market could work in a place where _ **air** _, and potable water, have to be manufactured. > [@smithsb](#): > > You’re just not seeing the “opportunities” inherent in such a marketplace. 😲 > > For the right kind of guy. Indeed. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NWZUp2KF5ls/maxresdefault.jpg "O'Hare Air - Bottled Air Commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWZUp2KF5ls) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3509 "2026-07-25T11:34:13Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Worth remembering that a major feature of that story was that, by and large, Earth was a despotic hellhole for 99% of the population much of the time Mars was being built out. Also worth remembering that except for the few who ran off to be survivalists (more or less), everyone else fell into hegemony as Earth used the demand for ROI to drive increasing control over the population. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3510 "2026-07-25T12:47:34Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > and potable water, have to be manufactured. Substantially all potable water on Earth today is manufactured. At least in the sense that non-potable water is captured from the environment of streams, rivers, lakes, wells, and oceans, then processed into potability using a big local factory / facility, then distributed from there to end users. And oddly enough, this provision of potable water is usually a government civic works monopoly. In the places it isn’t, potable water is scarce and expensive. Even if non-potable water is plentiful. Odd that. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3511 "2026-07-25T16:54:59Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Substantially all potable water on Earth today is manufactured. > > At least in the sense that non-potable water is captured from the environment of streams, rivers, lakes, wells, and oceans, then processed into potability using a big local factory / facility, then distributed from there to end users. Generally true. At a minimum, tap water has to be filtered and chlorinated. Still, here in Canada – at least in Ontario – there are many streams, both underground and above-ground – whose water is clean and safe to drink. It’s one reason that bottled spring water is practically free – you’re really just paying for the container, transportation, and some profits along the way. In fact up north, there are many lakes in wilderness camping areas like Killarney Park where the lake water is perfectly safe to drink. I am living evidence of that fact. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3512 "2026-07-25T17:19:46Z")
For sure wilderness and some rural water is consumed right from the environment. As a percentage of all consumption it’s a rounding error if that big. But yeah, very satisfying to drink. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3513 "2026-07-25T19:01:00Z")
Satisfying; the bear piss, the organic quadrillion microorganisms, made us stronger, it did. I drank it too on hikes . I’m so proud of my grandkids drinking from the water hose filling the splash pool. Something I did a zillion years ago. Nutrients (other stuff), it does a body good. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3514 "2026-07-25T19:31:10Z")
If nothing else, you consume all your “wild” water brought to a boil in the form of coffee, tea and soup. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3515 "2026-07-25T22:17:45Z")
The only time I drank from a stream was when I was hiking in the middle of nowhere, Iceland, and it was meltwater from a glacier five miles away. It was, indeed, refreshing. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3516 "2026-07-25T22:55:42Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > The only time I drank from a stream was when I was hiking in the middle of nowhere, Iceland, and it was meltwater from a glacier five miles away. That’s about the only time I’d drink from a stream. It’s not the bear piss that’s the problem, it’s the bear shit. Giardia is everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3517 "2026-07-26T04:44:06Z")
Elon thinks the editor of the Economist is a “traitor to the West” for pointing out in the interview he did with them that his claims of an imminent post-scarsity age of universal abundance contradict his claims that immigrants are poisoning Europe. > **[Elon Musk ridiculed for multi-day meltdown after contentious interview](https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-2677271977/)** > > Elon Musk is facing fresh mockery after attacking Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes days after she pressed him on a series of contradictions during a combative interview.Musk sat down with Beddoes for an interview published Thursday that... ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3518 "2026-07-26T11:38:25Z")
The Economist, whether one likes their politics or not, is famously hard on bullshit wherever they find it. How a bullshit-filled blowhard like musk thought he’d come out looking good dealing with someplace like them is hard to fathom. Of course my comment assumes musk is still capable of logical rational thought. Which seems an increasingly unsustainable assumption. ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3519 "2026-07-26T13:37:22Z")
Musk’s post-scarcity idea is entirely predicated on underpants gnome logic. 1. Create an intelligence greater than a human. 2. … 3. Post-scarcity utopia ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3520 "2026-07-26T18:46:45Z")
…and now he’s retweeting references to the Turner Diaries and calling for the interviewer to be executed. [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:refbwihhzcqqfulwhcou44sr/bafkreib57nuiq55oz3jbu5lf2orwk2rwuenv5klwx3gkcqk32y2nxvlusi) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:refbwihhzcqqfulwhcou44sr/bafkreib57nuiq55oz3jbu5lf2orwk2rwuenv5klwx3gkcqk32y2nxvlusi) ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3521 "2026-07-26T22:54:44Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > > [@Fear\_Itself quoting Gizmodo](#): > > > > He claimed that everyone would have a high income from doing nothing and that people might still perform some kind of labor as a hobby > > So… Universal Basic Income? That’s _socialist_ and will never fly in this country. I have a feeling there’s some context missing here. “High income” will be limited to the techbros, and perhaps some honorary 'bros like the Trump clan. The normies — those who haven’t been liquidated as surplus or inferior — will be privileged to live where they are told and work at whatever jobs they are assigned in return for whatever goods and services their superiors deign to grant them. All normie jobs will have the ultimate goal of creating wealth for the 'bros; and if an individual can no longer contribute to that goal (or becomes “uppity”) … well, they shoot horses, don’t they? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=174) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=176)