Wait wait you are telling me Musk didn't pull himself by his boots straps and actually is the biggest welfare queen there is? Nooo, I can't believe it...

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure which way you're leaning with this, but musk is a fucking scammer asshole. Just to make that clear.

[–] aikixd@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get this argument. The US government has invested into a tech development. Which means that spacex seemed to have a good base to pull that off. I didn't see a line of other companies doing anywhere near that capability.

Also, everyone calls for government to take lead in doing stuff for the betterment of humanity, but the second that happened, everyone loses their minds. Make up your mind, are we ok with government doing stuff or not?

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, government subsidies literally exist to try and get people to do the thing they're subsidizing - it makes no sense to hate on a company that completes them.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It makes sense when the company basically exploded on the scene with impossible claims which then turned out to be (obviously) lies. SpaceX always claimed to make rockets 10 times cheaper due to reuse. This wasn't possible, isn't possible, and won't be possible due to how rockets work. Yet here we are, the US is paying SpaceX normal and expected prices while they keep claiming impossible bullshit