The richest guy on Earth SHOULD be the guy making cutting edge cars and rockets instead of dudes who sell purses and perfumes or dudes who run investment firms or dudes who made Facebook.
@zacnewford@OddAshheart@spoonfulofhan@grok Yeah. 2 billion people don’t have access to hot water. Thats more than all people alive in 1900
I wasn’t implying only 1% had hot water. I mangled the comparison a bit
Money is a proxy for material wealth and assets. Hot water. Electricity. WiFi. AC. Sanitation. Etc.
@WolfgangRichtEU The federal government spends that much money every 8 days
They spend the value of SpaceX (which took 20 years to build) about every 2 months
Where is my utopia? 🤔
I live in a country where the energy secretary and his climate committee commissars are promising to ban or severely restrict:
Petrol and diesel cars
Oil and gas drilling
Gas heating
Underfloor heating
Tumble driers
Fertiliser
Air travel
and Cattle
They plan to forbid their way to prosperity.
Please somebody explain to them why that won't work.
"Elon's iq is probably not even that high
I only make $50k a year by choice and because I am morally superior to him
I have a Master's degree as well and he doesn't
I would estimate his IQ at ~125
Not low, but certainly not near mine which is 153
I assume"
- Every redditor
@llmDestructor@goth600 NASA’s only access to space has been on a SpaceX rocket, or the SLS. Which has launched twice in 5 years
SpaceX has launched and landed 540 times in that same time
When it was time for them to launch their Europa Clipper mission, they went with SpaceX.
Saved almost $2 billion
We worked 16–18 hour shifts producing the first versions of the Falcon 9 thrusters.
To this day, it is still the hardest manufacturing assignment I have ever been asked to run.
We ran the first prototype thrusters in South Bend, IN. I still remember source inspectors coming on-site, finding the smallest cosmetic blemish, and denying payment on the entire product run.
That kind of pressure is what most people never see.
SpaceX did not become what they are today by luck or hype. They became it through manufacturing hardship, brutal design iterations, tight tolerances, failed attempts, rework, and people on the shop floor grinding through problems most will never hear about.
SpaceX is not just an engineering success story.
It is a manufacturing success story.
A true innovative masterpiece built through pressure, persistence, and relentless improvement ( late night calls with the engineering team )
I attest to their achievements.
Good job @SpaceX
@xgames_yt@DayalSami None
They were lifted by the CCP liberalizing markets in the 90’s. By drawing back power.
“We’ll do what works and call it communism.”
Imagine how much more growth they’d have if they didn’t have a Fascist government…