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I’m not a Musk fan. He’s held up as some sort of modern day Tesla but he’s just an eccentric rich guy who employs a lot of hard working engineers.

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Hard working engineers who wouldn’t have jobs without Musk putting his entire net worth on the table

Until there is a better system then capitalism, capitalists are required to fund engineering.

> Hard working engineers who wouldn’t have jobs without Musk putting his entire net worth on the table

Pretty sure they could have found jobs elsewhere.

Sure, but not doing work of the same value. At ULA landing and reflying boosters? At VW building electric cars instead of cheating on emissions? No.

Workers are sort of fungible, missions less so.

That does not make him an engineering and/or business genius with carte blanche to behave as an entitled thin skinned idiot online. He's reached critical hype mass, there's enough people that think ha can make no mistakes and that everything he says must be true and smart.

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