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SpaceX is years ahead of the competition, utterly dominating the field even when said competitors receive billions from powerful nation-states. Musk makes many
by Georgelemental 3y ago
SpaceX is years ahead of the competition, utterly dominating the field even when said competitors receive billions from powerful nation-states. Musk makes many questionable decisions, but you can't argue with that level of overwhelming success.
- Grimblewald 3y agoHow much of that success can be attributed to musk though? That's like saying selective schools are better because students perform better but also they only admit high performing students. If you correct for a student's expected grades/outcomes, selective schools are detrimental to a child's education outcomes, not better. Musk bought into space tech which showed a lot of promise and called it a company. Spacex invented the things it is famous for like Apple invented the iPhone. How are we to know his presence hasn't actually crippled progress instead of helping? Sure his money helped make some things happen but I'd argue just taxing people like musk properly so funding for research isn't so slim we'd have seen the same maybe more.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoOne time could be a fluke, sure. But if a guy meets with engineers all day in rocket companies, robot factories, car factories, biotech research labs, and software teams, tells them what to do, fires people who don't do it... and largely succeeds in all of the above and remains years ahead of competition, then the burden of proof that he's "not smart" or "a grifter" is on the accuser. I don't use or own any Musk products, other than X, so I don't have a horse in this race. But I do have eyes.
- Georgelemental 3y agoPeople who work/have worked at SpaceX pretty universally cite Musk as instrumental to the success of the company. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-elon-musk https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-elon-musk