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Talent is everywhere. Tom Mueller is a great Engineer, no doubt. But SpaceX would probably have existed without Tom Mueller. Opportunity is not. The opportun
by petra 8y ago
Talent is everywhere.
Tom Mueller is a great Engineer, no doubt. But SpaceX would probably have existed without Tom Mueller.
Opportunity is not.
The opportunity to build a rocket company is rare. For it to exist, you need someone to bet Billions on a crazy idea.
Tom Mueller is poor. He can't bet that kind of money.
Elon Musk is rich. He's willing to make the bet, but in return he wants to feel important.
It seem like a pretty good trade, in my eyes.
As for diversity and inclusion - sure, that's a good thing.
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- zanny 8y agoEvery talent unrealized is a failure of society to provide opportunity. The fact that nine billion of us can produce one billionaire investor to found one successful private rocket company in half a century of space travel is a mark against the species. We would all be immortal digital consciousnesses traversing the stars at fractions of C by now if we had managed to capture an order of magnitude more talent in previous generations.
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- sethammons 8y agoIt does not need to be "made a crazy company, or is a major player in that company" to be opportunity. For a rural or inner-city kid, opportunity could mean securing a career where they can save for retirement and raise a family. There are so many kinds of jobs out there, but many disadvantaged folks will never even realize they can do better than being a local lumberjack or working at a local retailer. They don't know the opportunity even exists. I skipped out on about a decade of software development because it was not something someone did for real money in my locality, and the income it could command was very low the year I had briefly looked into it, and the rent in those areas where you could do programming was too high. I seriously considered working for the local lumberyard because I had trouble wrapping my head around other opportunities. You can find my path to software in another comment here. I think schools could do better than "career day" to expose kids to the opportunities out there.