Workdays SHOULD be 10am-3pm or 9am-2pm. There's no reason for people to spend most of their lives at work.
Let people go home and have time for their families, partners, friends, and rest. That's why everyone is so miserable today.
I still can’t figure out why we collectively decided to demote ourselves from a 1st world country to, at best, a 2nd world country filled with every minority, the mentally ill, and drug zombies everywhere. It makes no sense.
But I also didn’t get rich off this demotion.
Elon Musk flew to Russia to buy a rocket and the Russians laughed in his face and spat on his shoes.
In 2001 Musk had a simple plan. Buy a refurbished intercontinental ballistic missile from Russia, strip out the warhead, and use it to send a small greenhouse to Mars. He thought it would cost about $20 million.
He flew to Moscow with Adeo Ressi and Mike Griffin. They sat in a meeting with Russian rocket engineers and military officials. Musk explained what he wanted. The Russians looked at each other and started laughing. One of them literally spat on the ground near his feet. They thought he was a joke. A tech millionaire playing astronaut.
They eventually offered to sell him one rocket for $8 million. Musk tried to negotiate. They raised the price to $10 million per rocket out of disrespect. They wanted to humiliate him into leaving.
On the flight home from Moscow, while his friends slept, Musk opened his laptop and started building a spreadsheet. He calculated the raw material cost of building a rocket from scratch. Aluminum. Carbon fiber. Fuel. Electronics. He realized the materials cost roughly three percent of what aerospace companies charged.
He closed the laptop and said to Adeo "I think we can build this ourselves."
SpaceX was born on that flight. Not in a garage. Not in a lab. On a plane ride home from being humiliated by Russians who thought he was a fool.
Most people experience rejection and go home. Musk experienced rejection and opened a spreadsheet. The entire commercial space industry exists because some Russian engineers decided to be disrespectful to a 30 year old with a laptop.