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Myth: all the stuff accomplished by SpaceX is because of Musk 
Reality: it's because of the people who work at SpaceX. Musk is just a dude with money that gets in the way sometimes

“rocket man bad” is the prevailing narrative, but long before most of you had an opinion, Elon was leading the tiny, scrappy team that put the first private spacecraft into orbit (Falcon 1) using his own money. the story is incredible, and Elon deserves credit for the unprecedented achievement.

“rocket man bad” is the prevailing narrative, but long before most of you had an opinion, Elon was leading the tiny, scrappy team that put the first private spacecraft into orbit (Falcon 1) using his own money. the story is incredible, and Elon deserves credit for the unprecedented achievement.

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simultaneously: he also deserves credit for being a dumb cunt

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100% with you (i’m super disappointed with who he has become)

but it’s simply untrue that he’s not an engineer and didn’t (quite literally) get things off the ground in the early days

I used to have a positive opinion of elon based on stuff like that.. but.. opinions can change when someone acts like him did in the recent years..

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yep, i hate that he became such a reckless public figure over the years

to your point, nowadays, SpaceX has a lot more autonomy, and their team deserves immense credit for pushing the tech so far, but Elon does still have a lot of authority over critical design decisions (like catching the booster mid-air)

nuance, innit?

That's fair, he has been relatively involved with SpaceX design decisions over the years, and I do think leftists can be dismissive of that. I think he'd be great in a position like Chief Engineer perhaps where he could focus on that rather than trying to be Culture War King. I was oversimplifying for dramatic effect, the truth is somewhere in the middle. I still think Musk is overrated and the rest of the team is underappreciated though.

yep, but the bulk of the early funding ($100MM or so iirc) came from Elon.

this was an incredible amount of personal risk to take on and he nearly went bankrupt 

he was also consistently belittled by NASA, Congress, Boeing, etc. despite the popular narrative that the government just dumped money on him…many authorities were vehemently opposed to public space flight in general at that time. he had to do a lot to prove himself and Falcon before those coffers really opened up

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I give credit for that achievement, funded by government money fwiw.
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totally agree. He gets so much undeserved hate, people don't realize he's not only a great businessman but also a brilliant engineer. He's way more involved in the technical / engineering side of things than most CEOs