Muninwing t1_j2975yb wrote
Reply to comment by zugi in Is anybody else concerned about the people leading us into the future of space exploration? by [deleted]
Counterpoint: musk has always been like this… but that’s not why he has been successful.
Money. That’s it. He has money. So he launched a pet project… and hired committed, intelligent people to work there. But listen to accounts of his “management style” — at SpaceX, they had to devote resources to managing him and distracting him from undermining their work.
Billionaires are more predatory, more selfish, and better funded than other people. Not smarter, more skilled, or somehow better people.
zugi t1_j299wea wrote
Counter counterpoint: Bezos has money and got only silly toys at the edge of space. Branson has money and got nowhere too. NASA has money - billions in tax dollars - yet they can't build anything without spreading the work across 50 states and 100 different contractors. Until they changed their contracting method to contract types that Space X could bid on and win, which was smart on their part.
Sure, having a bunch of money is important - getting into the space business requires a lot of startup capital. But even with money, most ventures fail, yet Musk succeeded. I just think it's strange the lengths that 2022 redditors are willing to go to deny Musk any credit at all for Tesla, Space X, Starlink, etc. But regardless of credit, Space X is revolutionizing access to space, and that's a great thing.
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