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The only person that has to lie is Musk. That's why SpaceX is run as an autocracy. Everyone else drinks the Mars Kool aid. People who have been around a while c
by georgeg23 3y ago
The only person that has to lie is Musk. That's why SpaceX is run as an autocracy. Everyone else drinks the Mars Kool aid. People who have been around a while connect the dots.
To be more precise, the company is run by the DoD with significant technical and financial assistance. Elon is the main conduit between those deep resource and the rest of the company. He regularly meets with all teams to ensure they are aligned with "higher purposes".
To be even more precise, Elon is a front-man for a right-wing multi-decade program in American hegemony and actualizing it's crowning achievement--the Strategic Defense Initiative.
- xNeil 3y agocan the internet please decide whether SpaceX is an autocracy, or if (as several media outlets put it) Elons companies succeeded in spite of him as opposed to because of him. both of these cannot be true at the same time.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> can the internet please decide whether SpaceX is an autocracy, or if (as several media outlets put it) Elons companies succeeded in spite of him as opposed to because of him. No, the internet isn't a hive mind, and is never going to have simple unitary opinions except as rare coincidence. > both of these cannot be true at the same time. And yet a planet-scale information network can easily include voices that believe each of them simultaneously, because people disagree.
- oblio 3y agoCorporations are basically late stage feudal systems, close to absolutist systems, depending on the company (see Meta as an extreme example, or most privately held companies such as SpaceX or Valve). Everyone gets an ever smaller fief from the top boss, but the top boss has a lot of power.
- samr71 3y agoThis can be true AND Mars can be Musk's #1 priority. Musk wants to build a Mars colony. DOD wants Brilliant Pebbles / SDI. Perhaps a trade can be made? You'll need much of the same tech for each. If SpaceX is run by DOD, why is it not run by DOD? Why pretend otherwise? The best engineers won't work to build SDI? Thousands work for Boeing/Lockheed. They're all that much worse?
- panick21_ 3y agoLol the DoD giving SpaceX assistance is hilarious claim. And the are run by DoD noless. Complete nonsense with no evidence.
- georgeg23 3y agoRead the links and their citations before you jump to conclusions.