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>>prawn+(OP)
'New Elon / New Kanye' I think is disillusioning for a lot of people.

It's one thing to see a random celebrity or business person lose their marbles, but there was (and continues to be) high hopes for Elon at least with Tesla and Space X.

I absolutely understand someone trying to shake things up for PR, but I can't see how he's winning here.

>>jasmer+V6
I’m beginning to question whether starship will ever make it to orbit

>>pantal+98
starship has nothing to do with Elon. I know some SpaceX employees. They let Elon run around like the child he his pretending to be an engineer while they do the real work (and take his money)

>>dzader+qd
I've heard that SpaceX pays below the industry average though.

Seems like a bad deal, get paid less and have to "manage" your founder.

>>Alexan+NG
SpaceX pays significantly higher than NASA if you believe levels.fyi, so I think it depends what industry average you are using. If you compare to general software engineering then it certainly pays less, but that is because there are many talented engineers happy to take a pay cut to work on something they find personally motivating (space exploration).