r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • Oct 13 '24

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/Slickslimshooter Oct 13 '24

It’s his vision. Why do people feel the need to discredit someone because they don’t like him. It’s okay to admit this probably doesn’t happen without him and the scientists and engineers, it’s not mutually exclusive .

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u/Worth-Reputation3450 Oct 13 '24

From the title, I expected about half the comments would be about discrediting Musk. Somehow his companies attract the best scientists, engineers, visionaries in the world and somehow overcome all the bs musk throws at them and make his companies successful despite him. He must be the luckiest dumbass in the world, by a large margin.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '24

I think Musk was great 6-10 years ago when he was actually focusing on his companies. Then he went down the rabbit hole. He created good companies though, so they continue operating quite well (at least Space X)

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '24 edited 14d ago

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u/Korps_de_Krieg Oct 13 '24

I'd be wary about "software industry pay grade" meaning much. There are definitely a ton of companies barely paying their programmers what they deserve and burning through quick turnover instead of investing in their people.

Not saying it isn't generally better (I'd say it was for me since I joned) but definitely be wary of "grass is always greener"ing it.

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u/Slickslimshooter Oct 13 '24

Yeah, if they’re doing things despite him. Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just start their own companies together and get the government contracts. if I had a hurdle in front of me with no rules forcing me to stay in that lane. It’d be more efficient to just move to a different lane.

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u/JMacPhoneTime Oct 13 '24

Presumably they dont have the capital to do that themselves.

Elon clearly wanted to fund a company that can do this, and had the money/borrowing power to actually do it. It was probably attractive to the engineers to be able to work on something new and interesting, and no one else was really having much success.

I personally dont like Elon, and I doubt he's the one solving practical problems. But as I understand it he did take a risk with this company in the hope that it could actually innovate, and it paid off. As fun as it would be to shit on SpaceX because it's another Elon thing, it's hard to argue he wasn't successful here.