Okay but you’re falling into Elon’s trap. You can’t weigh future potential against current harm naively. Particularly when it comes from somebody with a long history of over promising and under delivering. Since we pay the full price up front (loss of science, etc) but will never reap the full benefits promised.

Every single example of means testing has been more expensive than just distributing the benefits to the people that ask for them.

Wasn’t that later revealed to be a hoax? It was during one of the major waves of legal advice trolls