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Why would SpaceX care about shading the satellite if there wasn't a movement raising its voice? Plus, I don't quite get how thousands of tiny satellites used fo

by mola 6y ago

Why would SpaceX care about shading the satellite if there wasn't a movement raising its voice? Plus, I don't quite get how thousands of tiny satellites used for communication on the planet will make advance us a space faring race.

mlindner 6y ago
> Why would SpaceX care about shading the satellite if there wasn't a movement raising its voice? Because the idea that companies care about NOTHING other than money is generally false with exceptions of a few companies that think like that. (Notably they're not pubicly held, they don't have public quarterly revenue targets and they're not required to make profit for investors.) SpaceX wasn't aware that they would cause an impact. SpaceX started working on solutions as soon as they heard issues. Companies are not omnipotent. Hanlon's razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".
- mola 6y ago
  I'm not attributing malice at all. The moral obligation of corporation is value for share holders. Shading the satellites doesn't add value. Thus no reason to even think about it, unless there's a public outcry which might damage the value. I extremely dislike this moral code and Milton Friedman and its second order effects on our society. But that's the frame of mind most people who go through US MBA are indoctrined with. Regarding Musk, he has proven to have this Randian Hero mentality. He might care about astronomy, and he might just think, who gives a f*CK we're going to Mars. That's why democracy is important, it reduces the variance of impact these bigger than life type personalities can induce. I think it's crazy a single person can decide for.all of us how the future will look like.
  - mlindner 6y ago
    > I'm not attributing malice at all. The moral obligation of corporation is value for share holders. Shading the satellites doesn't add value. Thus no reason to even think about it, unless there's a public outcry which might damage the value. It's not a moral obligation at all. Corporations don't have morals because they're not alive. The people running them certainly do however. It turns out that people who work in the space industry happen to like space and don't want to ruin the view of it. Elon Musk allegedly specifically tells investors that invest that if they're expecting to get a return on their investment anytime soon to not invest. > I extremely dislike this moral code and Milton Friedman and its second order effects on our society. But that's the frame of mind most people who go through US MBA are indoctrined with. What are you even talking about. SpaceX isn't run by MBAs. It's run by engineers. My personal opinion is that industries self-regulate well as long as they are not given obscene incentives for narrow near-term profit at the expense of the long term. Luckily SpaceX is not a public company so they have no need to worry about the near term.

by mola 6y ago

mlindner 6y ago

> Why would SpaceX care about shading the satellite if there wasn't a movement raising its voice? Because the idea that companies care about NOTHING other than money is generally false with exceptions of a few companies that think like that. (Notably they're not pubicly held, they don't have public quarterly revenue targets and they're not required to make profit for investors.) SpaceX wasn't aware that they would cause an impact. SpaceX started working on solutions as soon as they heard issues. Companies are not omnipotent. Hanlon's razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".

mola 6y ago
I'm not attributing malice at all. The moral obligation of corporation is value for share holders. Shading the satellites doesn't add value. Thus no reason to even think about it, unless there's a public outcry which might damage the value. I extremely dislike this moral code and Milton Friedman and its second order effects on our society. But that's the frame of mind most people who go through US MBA are indoctrined with. Regarding Musk, he has proven to have this Randian Hero mentality. He might care about astronomy, and he might just think, who gives a f*CK we're going to Mars. That's why democracy is important, it reduces the variance of impact these bigger than life type personalities can induce. I think it's crazy a single person can decide for.all of us how the future will look like.
- mlindner 6y ago
  > I'm not attributing malice at all. The moral obligation of corporation is value for share holders. Shading the satellites doesn't add value. Thus no reason to even think about it, unless there's a public outcry which might damage the value. It's not a moral obligation at all. Corporations don't have morals because they're not alive. The people running them certainly do however. It turns out that people who work in the space industry happen to like space and don't want to ruin the view of it. Elon Musk allegedly specifically tells investors that invest that if they're expecting to get a return on their investment anytime soon to not invest. > I extremely dislike this moral code and Milton Friedman and its second order effects on our society. But that's the frame of mind most people who go through US MBA are indoctrined with. What are you even talking about. SpaceX isn't run by MBAs. It's run by engineers. My personal opinion is that industries self-regulate well as long as they are not given obscene incentives for narrow near-term profit at the expense of the long term. Luckily SpaceX is not a public company so they have no need to worry about the near term.