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A comment on Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle Mars. Parent comment

Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by TuringNYC on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:20PM (#22496355)
>> I always found the dichotomy of Soviet culture interesting - that engineers were the most pragmatic I've ever seen, and the politicians were just...fucking idiots.

I'm not familiar with that history, but I'm quite familiar with Corporate America. One thing I've seen is that when Engineering is great, it gives the company great momentum and allows the Management/"Business"/Strategy/etc functions to lag and get lazy. Good Engineering momentum essentially produces enough residual value for others to leech off from.

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Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by mrkstu on Thursday March 05, 2020 @01:36PM (#22496531)
Which may be an insight on how SpaceX/Tesla avoid some of those traditional business issues- the business is this case is a means to an engineering end, not a means to perpetuate the power/wealth/comfort of management.
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Re:Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle ... by koheripbal on Thursday March 05, 2020 @06:14PM (#22499417)
This is a vague statement that is just as often untrue as it is true.

It's more of a stereotype to hate on "management" and is lazy thinking.

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