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Re:SpaceX Paid $250k to a Flight Attendant Who Accused Musk ... by wahnfrieden on Thursday May 19, 2022 @07:53PM (#31441747)
Maybe you can find more respect for the contributions of his workers to those achievements, than he has as an anti-labor union buster employing illegal tactics
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Re:SpaceX Paid $250k to a Flight Attendant Who Accused Musk ... by pstuart on Thursday May 19, 2022 @10:00PM (#31442516)
That's not a problem. Obviously the success is only possible with the workers who actually make stuff happen.

I'm not a Musk fanboy but I recognize the power of someone with great intelligence and vision and is willing to bully to make it happen.

Case in point: there's 3 space companies run by billionaires, but only one of them is successful. I think it's his driving force that makes the difference.

It doesn't make him a good person, but it's evident that it is effective. As with Jobs, I can respect his achievements and not respect him.

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Re:SpaceX Paid $250k to a Flight Attendant Who Accused Musk ... by systemvoltage on Friday May 20, 2022 @12:20AM (#31443310)
Bill Gates was also pretty unruly, especially the 90's towards the early corporate era of Microsoft.

If allegations on Elon are true, it is unfortunate to have this stain on his rather remarkable vision for the future. We need more visionaries like Elon.

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Re:SpaceX Paid $250k to a Flight Attendant Who Accused Musk ... by mzs on Friday May 20, 2022 @01:06AM (#31443561)
"Reports of Bill Gates' alleged inappropriate relationships and sexual advances towards Microsoft employees…"

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/tech/microsoft-bill-gates-sex...

"Melinda French Gates voiced concerns about her husband’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and a harassment claim against his money manager. He also had an affair with an employee."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gat...

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Re:SpaceX Paid $250k to a Flight Attendant Who Accused Musk ... by pstuart on Friday May 20, 2022 @12:12PM (#31449408)
I was not a fan of Gates when MS was the 800 pound gorilla in tech. Embrace, extend, extinguish was deplorable.

When he started on the Gates Foundation and became a philanthropist it helped reform him in my eyes. But the latest revelations have undone much of that.

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Re:SpaceX Paid $250k to a Flight Attendant Who Accused Musk ... by systemvoltage on Friday May 20, 2022 @04:01PM (#31451870)
I'm with you. Bill went from uncool to cool, back to uncool now.
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