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Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by willis936 on Friday June 17, 2022 @12:54PM (#31781007)
This take seems to flip reality on its head. The tiny minority is Musk and his followers.
Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by k1ko on Friday June 17, 2022 @02:15PM (#31782147)
Funny you mention reality. I don't even consider Musk Republican, but let's assume that for the sake of argument. Latest generic congressional polling has Republicans leading by handful of points.

https://ballotpedia.org/Ballotpedia%27s_Polling_Index:_Gener...

Re:SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking... by logifail on Friday June 17, 2022 @02:26PM (#31782314)
> The tiny minority is Musk

As Terry Pratchett so wonderfully put it in Making Money (Discworld #36)[0], there is "a piece of ancient magic called [..] fifty-one percent of the shares".

As far as what happens at SpaceX goes, Musk isn't the minority. He's the (?? 78%) majority owner.

So, if you work at SpaceX and don't like him, I think the options boil down to: a) suck it up, or b) find somewhere else to work ...

... or maybe c) leave and start your own SpaceX? We all know competition is good. Of course in that case you'll really have Skin In The Game[1] - and coincidentally that's the Taleb book I've been reading this afternoon.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Money [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_Game_(book)