-> It shows that you can do hard work and that you can be productive.
-> It actually increases your odds to get hired at one of these modern and well-paid retirement houses like Google or Meta.
(I believe it seriously, it's not sarcasm from my perspective)
I've always been and remain a big fan of Musk's business acumen and initiatives. Being involved in some small way to help realize the future is tremendously rewarding.
None of the political stuff or "media controversies" bother me. I lean Right myself, am tired of progressive nonsense circa ~2012, and have seen the MSM been caught in lie after lie after lie over the past 20 years (and the lies almost always lean one way). Going after bureaucracy and government efficiency is incredibly important, even if done in a somewhat haphazard manner. These institutions become cancerous and waste tremendous taxpayer resources, they need some chemotherapy.
Well OP, you asked, I answered, I wonder if HN is mature enough to discuss such a topic without excessively downvoting the political minority here.
But surely not this far right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc
> have seen the MSM been caught in lie after lie after lie over the past 20 years
You mean like Musk has told lie after lie over the past 20 years?
> Going after bureaucracy and government efficiency is incredibly important
Nothing DOGE is doing is about efficiency. They're not trying to understand or improve any of it. They're just haphazardly throwing it away. Like this with ebola prevention:
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-suggests-he-alone-decides-what...
If you want to work for a company on the bleeding edge then it's hards to find one further than a Musk company.
I worked at The Boring Company at a relatively high ranking role. I stayed as long as I did because I loved the challenge - deadlines are crazy, and its a high stress high reward environment. Until the work started impacting my personal life, I didn't really have a problem with it. Steve Davis is a micromanager to the extreme, which is one of the worst parts of the job. If you perform well in the environment, you're rewarded for it by getting less oversight by Steve. It's an incentive to stick with the company. In addition, my ISO package was very handsome.
I left due to the previously mentioned personal life impacts, and the increasing political bias of the company. I'm relatively left leaning, and prior to the election, Elon visited and stated that it was crucial that Trump won to secure the future of the company for deregulation. Steve Davis also kept leaning onto this in our all hands. All in all, it just became too much for me.
Is it by design, or it just how it worked with that particular person?
Remember, our space program was lead by a former Nazi who was happy to use slave labor.