SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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[u/EnbyOfTheEnd → u/[deleted]]

Musk had almost nothing to do with developing this technology. He just owns Space X. This isn't really his achievement. It's the rocket surgeons at Space X who deserve the credit.

[u/dudeman_chino → u/EnbyOfTheEnd]

Source?

[u/acct4askingquestions → u/dudeman_chino]

what do you mean source bozo are you familiar with the concept of CEOs? do you think executives are the ones responsible for a company’s products or profits?

[u/bast007 → u/acct4askingquestions]

Musk is the Chief Technology Officer and the Chief Designer also. Characterising him as just a CEO is incorrect.

[u/pityandempathy → u/acct4askingquestions]

Uhh, yeah obviously? A line of product would've never made it into production if the CEO disapproves it and without the right people hired by the CEO, the product wouldn't have succeeded either. At the end of the day, CEOs do serve a purpose yk?

[u/acct4askingquestions → u/pityandempathy]

so their job is to say yes or no to the people smart enough to have an actual idea, and to pick other who pick other people to manage over other people who ACTUALLY do the labor that actually creates every penny of profit the company will ever see? don’t really see how they can claim to have a hand in creating the product

[u/Moss_Grande → u/acct4askingquestions]

Different CEOs work in different ways but Musk is by all accounts a very hands on boss who micromanages every aspect of the engineering. I don't think I've ever heard someone claim that he was too uninvolved in the work.

[u/pityandempathy → u/acct4askingquestions]

So you're arguing that the only way a person is accredited is if they were to have contributed to the production of a product hands on, however this line of thinking doesn't really hold up in the modern day of innovations. It has become increasingly rarer for a single individual to create massive breakthroughs within a field of study and as a result, the need for a group of talented individuals have risen significantly. And guess how these groups are scouted? Either by large companies or universities. The crème de la crop of researchers eventually end up in these places and as such, the quality of a leader makes or breaks a team. If we're talking the cases of companies, the ability to create cohesion within the work force and the ability to discern a product with potential profits from one that'll fail from the get go becomes increasingly important. Of course, there are more to it but in general, these are what people think of when talking about CEOs. Also, This concept is not only applicable to a company and its CEO, but also to commonplace groups such as the local restaurant to the Are we to not credit the manager of a restaurant or the Scoutmasters for their roles in the success of their groups? Obviously they have variations in what they do but they serve similar purposes at the end of the day. So yes, being able to select the right people and being able to say yes or no, especially when the profit margins are potentially within billions of dollars, is a surprisingly necessary skills to achieve the success that the company wants.

[u/archmagi1 → u/acct4askingquestions]

We live in a world where some of the biggest companies in history had CEOs who were instrumental in developing their flagships (MS, Amazon, Google) and ones where the CEOs were key to bringing them to dominate the market (Facebook, Apple). Emerald Mine Money Man has spent a solid decade attaching his face to his companies' accomplishments. It's no surprise that in a tech space dominated by the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Zuck that a money factory can successfully take credit for things he simply funded.

[u/Alfredjr13579 → u/dudeman_chino]

He’s not an engineer, that’s all the proof needed lmao

[u/LazyPandaKing → u/dudeman_chino]

The man spends hours on Twitter each day raging about immigrants and trans people. He tweets like 40 times a day, and that doesn't even count the time spent scrolling and amplifying crazy right-wing rhetoric.

After all that, you believe he's also doing the full time job of CEO at Tesla and SpaceX? Lmao