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Comment on Elon Musk taking delivery of his McLaren F1 shortly after selling Zip2 for $307 million in 1999

If I were rich I’d open up a bunch of repair cafes that lost money but helped people fix their stuff and keep it out landfills and taught people valuable soldering/electronics/programming/DIY skills while bringing the community together with volunteers and cheap coffee! Ah, that’s the dream…

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terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Socialists like yourself are filtered out before your empathy can damage the stock market

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cattywampus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I think we might have a similar work background. Mechatronics is so much fun. To do a little of everything, CAD, 3D printing, soldering, wood working, welding, programming and then have something functional that didn’t exist before is so enjoyable. Same with upcycling like what you’re saying. Seems like something that could be a feature added onto select libraries as they are fundamentally for the philanthropic sharing of knowledge.

A friend in college had an idea for a website like this kind of centered around skill sharking aka people would post skills or ask for help and trade work to better their community. Example being someone’s bike is broken and then someone who is handy helps them and they get the “karma” on the website.

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- Jimbabwe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s a cool idea! I wonder if it’d be possible to cash those karma points in for something tangible without the whole idea going to shit? Like a local shop agreeing to give a small discount to someone who earned a lot of karma on the site? Obviously not trying to reinvent capitalism or anything, but a karma barter system of some kind would be interesting if done right.
  
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  - cattywampus@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It’s been a while but eventually this the original idea was users would get like 100 karma automatically and then could offer X amount for help and it would be granted when help was given and then that person who earned the karma could themselves have more karma to offer possibly for a more difficult task.
    
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