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I’m not a Musk fan. He’s held up as some sort of modern day Tesla but he’s just an eccentric rich guy who employs a lot of hard working engineers.

• toomuchtodo 8y ago
  Hard working engineers who wouldn’t have jobs without Musk putting his entire net worth on the table Until there is a better system then capitalism, capitalists are required to fund engineering.
  • ibn_ibid 8y ago
    Oh yea I forgot that Musk's companies are the only places where engineers can work
  • 1stranger 8y ago
    > Hard working engineers who wouldn’t have jobs without Musk putting his entire net worth on the table Pretty sure they could have found jobs elsewhere.
    • toomuchtodo 8y ago
      Sure, but not doing work of the same value. At ULA landing and reflying boosters? At VW building electric cars instead of cheating on emissions? No. Workers are sort of fungible, missions less so.
  • sorenjan 8y ago
    That does not make him an engineering and/or business genius with carte blanche to behave as an entitled thin skinned idiot online. He's reached critical hype mass, there's enough people that think ha can make no mistakes and that everything he says must be true and smart.