They will soon provide Internet the world over and X will be a monopoly.

....our upper atmosphere is becoming one huge metal scrap yard.

By placing junk in as many as possible. Then, selling the spot or more likely leasing it out to the highest bidder.

He has a cheap rocket, but no one makes money launching rockets, so he needed a cheap satellite program to launch to justify the valuation of the rocket company.

Musk launches Musk satellites in a Peter pays Peter financing program. How profitable is all this?

Unless a lot of people start using Starlink, it isn't. Word is Musk is demanding 700 million dollar contract from Trump for Starlink paid by us. So that is the likely answer. Musk fortune built on pump and dump technology.

It had similar goals and it turns out similar flaws.

Oh, I am sure The High Maintenance Mussolini will gladly hand over other people’s hard earned money as long as he gets to dip his beak. A tithe, so to speak. Okay, so Special K allegedly paid somewhere between $250 - $500 M to install The Boomerang Buffoon and now he’s waiting for his $700 M payout. It’s no wonder he won’t let the chump out of his sight.

He's launched around 7000 satellites so far for Starlink. If I remember right, the FCC has permitted him to have 12,000 up there for Starlink and the company has plans for 30,000 more after that.

but alas he gets paid tho.

...sometimes I think it may be the new form of warfare. And they use lasers and the weather to assist them.