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No Musk builds nothing. There is a huge team he leads, consisting of engineers and scientists and they develop technology that Musk then sells. He's a glorified

by bergen 2y ago

No Musk builds nothing. There is a huge team he leads, consisting of engineers and scientists and they develop technology that Musk then sells. He's a glorified cars salesman. Maybe he was essential to get the rockets built, but neither did he build them, nor contribute essential technical details, so that it would be uniquely him who could do it given same financial backing.

azinman2 2y ago
Meanwhile the competitors are failing. He’s doing something right that’s beyond just car salesman.
- Log_out_ 2y ago
  In the realm of invisible monopolies and quasi-state owned the privately owned individual is only half blind.
  - azinman2 2y ago
    What does that even mean? Your structural setting changed your success potential? China would disagree. Besides… Blue origin? Boeing? These are not state owned or “invisible” yet are failing.
    - Log_out_ 2y ago
      A pension fund is a conservative entity interested in stability above all things, with longterm planning, rulebooks, almost like a small state. The line between public and private is very blurry by now and that blurryness goes both ways. Get public funding long enough and you loose your agency to become a bureau of everything nihilitary gone.
thepasswordis 2y ago
This image should just get autoreplied any time somebody tries to (incorrectly) claim that Elon Musk is just a salesman: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/ub1yav/but_the_emerald_mines/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/ub1yav/bu...
- marxisttemp 2y ago
  lol I met Josh Boehm years ago, didn’t realize he had crawled so far up the ladder at SpaceX. I tried talking with him about programming but he struck me as one of those insufferable managerial types with no passion for the craft that had fully bought into his personality cult. I seem to recall his handle on some social media being “Baron Boehm”, which is probably a telling indication of his ego.

by bergen 2y ago

azinman2 2y ago

Meanwhile the competitors are failing. He’s doing something right that’s beyond just car salesman.

Log_out_ 2y ago
In the realm of invisible monopolies and quasi-state owned the privately owned individual is only half blind.
- azinman2 2y ago
  What does that even mean? Your structural setting changed your success potential? China would disagree. Besides… Blue origin? Boeing? These are not state owned or “invisible” yet are failing.
  - Log_out_ 2y ago
    A pension fund is a conservative entity interested in stability above all things, with longterm planning, rulebooks, almost like a small state. The line between public and private is very blurry by now and that blurryness goes both ways. Get public funding long enough and you loose your agency to become a bureau of everything nihilitary gone.

thepasswordis 2y ago

This image should just get autoreplied any time somebody tries to (incorrectly) claim that Elon Musk is just a salesman: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/ub1yav/but_the_emerald_mines/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/ub1yav/bu...

marxisttemp 2y ago
lol I met Josh Boehm years ago, didn’t realize he had crawled so far up the ladder at SpaceX. I tried talking with him about programming but he struck me as one of those insufferable managerial types with no passion for the craft that had fully bought into his personality cult. I seem to recall his handle on some social media being “Baron Boehm”, which is probably a telling indication of his ego.