[ExI] QRE: World’s fastest post-Concorde jet goes to first buyer

[John Clark]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*Regarding luxury jets: John you mentioned a thousand AI trillionaires.  OK
> we can go with that.  Think of the current situation, zero trillionaires,
> maybe two guys who could get there in the next few years, but one of them
> is age 81, so it isn’t clear he will live long enough (he might (Larry
> looks great.))  But suppose AI creates all this unimaginable wealth, and a
> thousand trillionaires make nearly all of it. We have the Bombardier
> company building the 8k.  What if suddenly there is a hundredfold increase
> in the demand for those rigs? *


*That Bombardier jet is certainly a fun toy, if I was a trillionaire I'd
probably buy one myself, and the Bombardier Company might make a lot of
money off it. But I think it is a sign a future decline if a corporation
starts buying a fleet of private jets. Were they really unable to find a
better use for that money? As I said, for many years Bill Gates and all the
top Microsoft executives flew on commercial airlines, eventually Gates did
buy a private jet but he used his own money to do so, not Microsoft's.*

*John K Clark *





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> *From:* John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: QRE: [ExI] World’s fastest post-Concorde jet goes to first
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> On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> *> **Oh there are plenty of good reasons for CEOs to haul their butts
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> *>…Are CEO butts so magical that they're worth $80 million?*
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> *To the CEOs with that kind of money they are.  They have the money, they
> make the call on what their butts are worth.  Our opinion doesn’t matter.
> The guy with the jet doesn’t care what we think.*
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> *>>… **Having a CEO show up and give a pep talk at the factory is better
> than a zoom call.*
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> *>…A CEO showing up at a factory will not only interrupt production but
> likely instigate rumors of mass layoffs and decrease morale not increase
> it….*
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> *Meh, doesn’t square with my own experience.  My entire career was at a
> factory.  Once in a very long while the top guy would show up for a pep
> talk.  I don’t recall anyone worrying about a mass layoff.*
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> *>…To each their own, all I know is that before I became "a gentleman of
> leisure" I never liked it when my boss started looking over my shoulder as
> I worked.  * *John K Clark*
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> *Ja.  Where I worked, the CEO would have no idea what I am doing while I
> am at my job.  I wouldn’t even be able to easily explain it.  I might say
> something like: Sir my job is so secret, even I don’t know what I am doing.*
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> *That was a common line in there.  It sidesteps uncomfortable questions.*
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> *Regarding luxury jets: John you mentioned a thousand AI trillionaires.
> OK we can go with that.  Think of the current situation, zero
> trillionaires, maybe two guys who could get there in the next few years,
> but one of them is age 81, so it isn’t clear he will live long enough (he
> might (Larry looks great.))  But suppose AI creates all this unimaginable
> wealth, and a thousand trillionaires make nearly all of it.  *
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> *We have the Bombardier company building the 8k.  What if suddenly there
> is a hundredfold increase in the demand for those rigs?  Never mind why
> they want them.  They want them.  They have the money to buy them.  So… we
> will build them.*
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> *Just the current market for the B8k is employing people in Ireland,
> employing people at the former Canadair factory in Quebec, at the aircraft
> manufacturing facilities of Cessna, Beechcraft and Boeing located in or
> near Wichita KS, at the aircraft manufacturing plant in Burbank, out at
> Edwards, in the San Jose area, all those outfits might be trying to crank
> up production while new factories go in place, probably in Nevada and
> plenty of other places around the planet once we recognize that of course
> we need to desalinate water and of course we need enormous power generation
> capacity to build all this stuff, and of course we need nuclear power
> plants everywhere.*
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