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It's not really the same, since it's not the billionaires designing or building the rockets. They hire professionals for that.
by WJW 4y ago
It's not really the same, since it's not the billionaires designing or building the rockets. They hire professionals for that.
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y agoYes, not the same, Tycho Brahe, estimated to own 1% of the entire wealth of Denmark at the time, treated his workers as slaves [1], and even owned a slave as jester [2]. Today we have wages. [1] "Gellius appears to have feared that Tycho wanted to keep him on Hven 'working like a slave.'", 1991, Victor E. Thoren, The Lord of Uraniborg. A Biography of Tycho Brahe, Cambridge University Press, p. 357 [2] ibid., p. 193