One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
Elon Musk's fantasy is that he is a real life Tony Stark so it bothers him when you point out that he doesn't actually do the rockets design, that SpaceX has many actual engineers doing that full time.
Elon Musk's other fantasy, which goes hand in hand with the former, is to abolish all sort of worker rights and become some sort of futuristic medieval landlord
I know, that's a bonkers claim, who I could substantiate with his education in an official racial apartheid, but let's talk about Mars instead.
On the merits, his project do go to Mars would be the dumbest egomaniac project since the pharaons of the old Kingdom of Ancien Egypt ruined a whole country to build their tombs. Probably worse because if you could actually send people there, they would just die. But that would make him an historic figure, so he likes that.
But forget the kink shaming, his fantasy is interesting to understand him and his cult.
Just after Great Britain abolished slavery, they were smart enough to replace it with debt slavery. In practice indians had to repay their debt to their former masters, which they couldn't realistically do in a lfie time, but hey technically they were not slaves. Rule of law !
Elon Musk's fantasy is that he is a real life Tony Stark so it bothers him when you point out that he doesn't actually do the rockets design, that SpaceX has many actual engineers doing that full time.
Elon Musk's other fantasy, which goes hand in hand with the former, is to abolish all sort of worker rights and become some sort of futuristic medieval landlord
I know, that's a bonkers claim, who I could substantiate with his education in an official racial apartheid, but let's talk about Mars instead.
On the merits, his project do go to Mars would be the dumbest egomaniac project since the pharaons of the old Kingdom of Ancien Egypt ruined a whole country to build their tombs. Probably worse because if you could actually send people there, they would just die. But that would make him an historic figure, so he likes that.
But forget the kink shaming, his fantasy is interesting to understand him and his cult.
Just after Great Britain abolished slavery, they were smart enough to replace it with debt slavery. In practice indians had to repay their debt to their former masters, which they couldn't realistically do in a lfie time, but hey technically they were not slaves. Rule of law !
Now read Brainlord Elon Musk's Grand Plan For Mars Settlement Is Indentured Servitude and compare.
With this fantasy in mind, you might wonder whether working at a Elon Musk company is a great idea.
Then you discuss with people who worked there, or go on Glasdoor to find out, and well...