SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas
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And I'd bet some money that Elon hasn't done an analysis which key people SpaceX will lose by moving HQs.
> if you still work for him you probably have adopted some of his worldview
Yea, maybe... tbh I would expect kinda the opposite given that I assume a lot of the employees are relatively young and intelligent.
So are we doing snowflake feelings capitalism now? Or delivering shareholder value?
Musk invested in technologies other people were working on and companies other people started, and hired other people who made it all work (often, given anecdotal reports, in spite of him.) Let's please stop pretending none of that would have been possible without some singular genius on his part.
Sure, granted. The claim isn't re-usable rockets and mass-market EVs aren't possible without Musk. It's that it wouldn't be reality at scale today.
Musk has a rare combination of leadership, management and political ability that lets him coordinate large groups of people and capital on resource-intensive, long-term, long-shot goals; achieve those goals; and make money on it, thereby making the process repeatable. That doesn't excuse his nonsense public behaviour. But that behaviour, in turn, doesn't erase his accomplishments.
But we aren't privy to such things, and what remains of messaging is communication to people like us. Musk decided that putting a spotlight on trans youth would be the content of such messaging.
Of course another possibility is that just like Twitter, Musk ignores high level advice and does whatever he wants.
The employees, including the ones who would have to plan all the logistics, probably found out from his tweet.
Also, given Texas's draconian laws around reproductive health, how is moving to Texas any better?
> prohibits school districts from implementing policies requiring teachers to disclose any information on a student’s gender identity, sexual orientation or gender expression
And ERCOT seems to be doing ok these days - they keep quiet about it for political reasons I'm sure, but Texas has tons of renewables and is using batteries now to level supply out as needed. And the plans are to keep adding renewables and batteries.
Put directly, it seems like housing is subsidized by the use of underpaid, disenfranchised, often exploited undocumented immigrant labor
Didn't Houston just had issues with electricity just some weeks ago?
It has more to do with Centerpoint, who is the electricity provider for the city and responsible for maintaining lines. The power is there, but it can't reach homes due to the number of trees that fell on lines due to Hurricane Beryl's wind.
Some school districts had implemented policies that forced teachers to out students to parents even when they know that would be problem. This law prevents that but still allows them to notify parents.
The law applies to all LGBTQ+ identities, the most common being lesbian/gay, but trans is also part of it - and the trans part was singled out on twitter for some reason.
The law does not even prevent schools from outing kids. It prevents schools from FORCING employees to do it (with threat of losing their job if they don't).
School employees CAN STILL out kids to their parents in California. They just don't have to as a policy anymore. Which is perfectly reasonable, because sometimes the school employees see kids with extremely homophobic and abusive parents.
Nobody wants to out a kid to parents like that, and without this law, school employees get put in a position of asking themselves "Do I out the kid to their parents, who will likely beat them? Or do I refuse and lose my job?"
But the first thing out of everyone's mouth about a Tesla car is their opinion on Elon, and it seems very unlikely he's going to get more appealing to people who aren't Republicans.
And while consumer opinion on Tesla and Starlink will be hurt, Elon is probably hoping to get Trump to tariff Chinese electric car competitors massively so his only competition will be domestic
And I doubt SpaceX needs much more lobbying power for contracts.
I think it's pretty clear Elon's interest here is not in minor lobbying benefits but is a genuine reflection of how he's ass deep in the culture war.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Pensions have a fiduciary duty to maximize payout to beneficiaries who have paid in. There's no room for your moral crusade when managing other people's money.
Empirical but I know a lot of Tesla drivers that are looking for a different brand when their lease is over. Although its not only about his politics but also quality, broken promises,... .