Is USD just Monopoly money now?
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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The last guardrail the US had was Jerome Powell.
You can use US$ to Warsh your ass from now on.
Always has been.
Wilson brought back the US Central Bank (aka the Fed). Andrew Jackson killed the bank to free us from their clutches.
Nixon killed the gold standard so we could be the worlds central currency printing press and export inflation to the whole world and bully everyone into submission and extract their resources.
Wall st finished the financialization and commoditization of everything on the world so they could own it and gamble with the future while everyone else pays the bill.
Because all space companies need a social network and an ai coding company. It just makes sense. And your pension needs to buy this very logical company because it's large enough to be in the index.
SpaceX is 80% an AI company. More now, after acquiring Cursor. The space stuff is only the reception desk.
SpaceX is an infrastructure company. Deeply dependent on government good will and contracts. It leases it's data center compute to actual AI companies.
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This is just hog wash.
They are buying it for 60bn worth of SPCX Class A stock. This is Cursorβs board taking anything they can get for a company that has no future. Not a criticism against Cursor, but their market is standardising on Claude Code, and their value would rapidly head towards zero.
Class A stock has no voting rights. This is the investors of Cursor literally saying βbeing on Muskβs train to the moon is literally better than whatever future we have right nowβ.
The AI funding model.
True but they're still making a bank and while the best exist was months ago the next best exit is now. I'd very happily take 60b worth of meme stock for a product with no future.
And they're about to buy Tesla for an ungodly sum, sweeping another failure under the rug, this time with every index fund holder bailing them out.
$60 billion.
Minecraft was acquired for 2.5 billion in 2014.
atleast minecraft actually worth that much, probably
It's actually worth wayyy more. Microsoft already broke even just 2 years later (2016). It's estimated they made 8.5B total since acquisition.
Cursor will likely never make 8.5 billion let alone 60.
But Microsoft didn't plan on that. They only bought Mojang because they needed to launder offshore money from Europe.
In case you guys haven't figured it out, Musk is just a tool of Wall Street, whether these companies make money or not is completely irrelevant.
Okay, that put things into scale for me.
Almost like someone is lying about the inflation numbers for the past decade
I kinda remember reading how the purchase of Macromedia by Adobe was like the biggest acquisition ever at 6 billion or so back in the late 2000s.
"Cursor, help me figure out why this request is failing with a CORS error."
Thinkingβ¦
Reviewing sourcesβ¦
- "Elon Musk on X"
- "Elon Musk Twitter acquisition" townhall recording
- "Programming best practices" and "Elon Musk"
Done.
It looks like everything needs to be thrown out and redone. The whole stack. It's not good, it's bloated, it was made by overpaid salary workers.
"What's wrong with the stack?"
The whole stack. Just the stack. All of it.
Perhaps Iβm missing something, but isnβt Cursor simply a VSCode fork with some AI extensions integrated into it? Hate aside, what is the actual technical value of the product?
Early on in the AI game, before Vibe Coding was even a term, Cursor was the only tool that could connect VsCode to an AI model. Since then, there are now dozens of tools to do this for you. Cursor basically has no unique features, the only value it has as a company is an existing userbase and an established dev team. The worst part is that they are built on top of VSCode, which means their existence hinges on Microsoft benevolently sharing one of their most valuable products, and Microsoft has made several moves to try to kill the Cursor userbase and bring them back to VSCode.
Cursor is one of the worst investments you could make right now. It's surrounded on all sides by rivals trying to eat their lunch, and they have basically zero IP to protect their market advantage.
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While it is nowhere near the value Elon paid. It is a tool for easy coding with ai. Like the others thousands that out there. I mean spacex buying companies left and right at prices that make no sense is weird. Spacex being valued that much when all they do is burn money at a rate of several states is confusing.
Elon getting richer by the second with all that nonsense is suspicious....
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He is buying the users that cursor had. But these users can switch to another AI harness any day they wanted to.
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So the companies just get random values these days? It used to be that you actually had to generate some sort of profit before you were considered a valuable company.
I have my own business, so I just declared myself a billionaire. Now the government can send me billions in government contracts.
Why can't he download cursor for free? What an idiot.
My cursor came free with my operating system, although I did have to buy my own mouse.
Nazis buying up more shit. Fuck all these clowns. Free Luigi.
Local coding LLMs are going to be the hot new commodity this year.
Already is, take a look at devstral, qwen3.6, deepseek coder. All can be run on a hugh end GPU and if you're a developer you likely have one.
The vast majority of users ain't running anything but 27b max, more likely 14b, and that shit just ain't nearly as good as older saas models much less dominant like opus. Maybe for small shit but complex talks just ain't fitting on home hardware.
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Why would a developer likely have a high end GPU? Writing code doesnβt use a GPU.
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The US economy is just cooked, none of it is real or makes any sense.
Hello, 1929 crash out upcoming.
Wow, cursor costed more to Musk than twitter
Yet somehow less valuable. Isn't it just a fork of VSCode with more AI tools built in?
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Sure would like some food, affordable housing, and healthcareβ¦
They entered into an agreement to buy Cursor, with an expected time for the merger in Q3. It's an all stock transaction, the number of shares that will depend on the SpaceX share price, to make up the 60 billion USD. Also they will pay in Class A shares (so the shitty ones with nearly no voting power)
is a validation of the soaring interest in AI-assisted coding.
Sure, buddy. Whatever makes you feel better.
Very interesting. It doesn't really make sense to "buy users" imo. Devs jump over to the current best offerings.
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