That's your lack of 'Musk derangement syndrome' speaking. I DO have a SpaceX product, and for now many (most?) people do have other options. I recently came across this: Top 5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Get Starlink Internet | HighSpeedInternet.com It's heavily weighted against SpaceX and despite the May-2026 publication date it's somewhat behind the times - but the data that are there are.....interesting. Unlimited low latency home internet @ roughly 100mb/s...for $55/mo after a roughly $300 buy-in? NOT earth shattering or life-changing today for most people - but then again most people have terrestrial options some of which are price or capability competitive. HOWEVER!!! (comma....) Starlink is only going to get cheaper because the Starship is only 2x more expensive to launch than a Falcon-9 but it can loft more than 2x the number of birds per flight - and Starlink is already capable of direct-to-cell. As for myself? My $200 Starlink Mini is only a piece of damage control equipment and a $10 per month self-monitoring plan for my alarm system and camera. If the fit hits the shan I can log in and unlock 100mb/s - mobile, if needed with a 20w power draw and no dependency on copper, glass, or local cell towers.
He has politics? WHEN the blazes does he find the TIME?! -never really noticed WHAT his politics are, but then my opinions about him have never really changed that much over the years.
Or you could have put that money in a fund that provides monthly dividends at the rate of 8-10% annually, paid your electric bill and had 1000s extra every year to play with plus your principle. Life is full of choices. Let's be real Bob, no matter how you manipulate numbers, it's unlikely you will ever see a savings of even 30% of what you paid on this 'investment'. Hell, Bob, give me 50k and I'll sign a contract to give you 2k a year for the rest of your life. You just doubled your return of what you're saving with your solar, right?
Don't do it Bob! A real annuity company will give you a whole lot more, e.g. ~$5000/year for life! Or $4800/year with 10 years guaranteed, so that your beneficiaries continue to get the payments if you pass earlier. Or if you are now married, to a woman ~60 years old, then get a joint-life payment of $3400/year with that same 10 year guarantee in case you both pass earlier. Numerous other choices also available. You will have to pay some income tax on just a portion of it, but from previous threads it appears that you are normally in the 10 or 12% tax bracket (except that year you sold the stock), but after tax you'd still be getting a lot more. Don't be so afraid of taxes that you shoot yourself in the foot. E.g. when my spouse had to take over her father's care a quarter century ago -- I'll call him "Fritz" -- and I took over his finances, I discovered he was so tax-averse that he was keeping a large amount of money in the bank in a non-interest-bearing form, avoiding over $7000/year in very easy interest income in order to qualify for a ~$300 low-income senior citizen property tax reduction. Had he chosen to collect interest, some of it would have landed in the 10% tax bracket, but he still have been more than $6000/year ahead. (I promptly moved it to interest-bearing form, picking something that he had already considered with an unregistered 'financial advisor', but hadn't moved on.) Don't be like Fritz. Don't avoid a much larger after-tax return just to avoid paying some taxes.
