I thought it was an interesting way to put it that: the JPL produces things at $1,000,000/kg, and that inside the engineering organization it'll be hard to rec

I thought it was an interesting way to put it that: the JPL produces things at $1,000,000/kg, and that inside the engineering organization it'll be hard to reconfigure everyone's mindsets and practices to create stuff that doesn't spend so much money / is less concerned with weight. From an engineering perspective it seems like simply putting less into a finished product would be easy, but his argument is basically that the design parameters for every single thing produced are so fundamentally oriented towards weight (and size maybe?) that it's very hard to turn around. (This is not exactly the government spending / misaligned incentive argument that is made for many government projects- my read was that this is a subtly different problem.)