00:00Come fly with me, let's fly away!
00:05Michael O'Leary, the Ryanair boss, could have quoted Sinatra in response to Elon Musk calling him an utter idiot on X.
00:14The reason for this sudden affection? A fight over Musk's stalling Wi-Fi on board.
00:20In response, Ryanair boss launched a big idiot seat sale with cheap flights for Elon and all the other, quote, idiots, end quote.
00:29But away from the noise, how actually do their business models impact us?
00:35First, the environment. Ryanair's fleet of more than 600 planes emitted over 60 million tons of CO2 last year.
00:43Then again, data centers for X and Grok AI are part of an industry that consumes so many resources
00:50that in Ireland and the Netherlands they are threatening drinking supplies and triggering blackout alerts.
00:56So neither of them is exactly winning the Greta Thunberg award.
01:00Then they are taxes and both X and Ryanair have Irish head offices.
01:05Ryanair hires 26,000 people and paid over 170 million euros in taxes last year.
01:12And X? After the recent layoffs, they have just over 100 staff left in Dublin.
01:18And thanks to reporting a massive loss, their tax bill was near zero.
01:24Finally, Ryanair claims they have a score of 90% satisfied customers.
01:30And to be fair, X users are also very satisfied.
01:34Or at least that's what the Russian bots tell me.
01:37And yes, both are ruthless, but one is an American eccentric billionaire.
01:42And the other is, well, ours?
01:46And honestly, I just can't imagine flying to Mars for 16.99.
01:51So for that one, I'm voting with my legs.
01:55Even if there is never any space for them on board.
01:58Let's go, guys.
01:59You go.
02:00None hockey this is good.
02:01I'm voting with my legs.
02:03.
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