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If it’s completely voluntary, and is taken up by a few hundred Musk superfans with dreams of being a new Martian aristocracy or something, that’s basically a billionaire deathsub situation: a little tragic, a little hilarious but ultimately having little impact. The problem is if the candidates aren’t self-selecting muskies but economically coerced precarious workers, having to choose between this and struggling to keep their heads above water.