The author is not the first to denigrate Elon Musk and this time he could right about SpaceX and its plans. He may also have to eat humble pie as others have done who laughed at Elon Must over 20 years ago when he stated he was going to build reusable space rockets.
...."it’s also made plutocrats of blue collar engineers who were paid bonuses in shares."
Indeed, but "engineers" in the US refers to people with between one and three university degrees in engineering. They work at desks, perhaps with occasional visits to work sites while wearing hardhats. They are not blue collar. "Engineers" in the UK seems to refer to mechanics.
Well said, Alys, you have got the beauty of Capitalism absolutely right! As it happens I am a fan of the late James Lovelock who was ridiculed for his theory of Gaia that everything on our planet is interconnected but proved right just before his 100th Birthday and in his last book Novacene he thought it was bonkers to go try to live on Mars, but as you say, we love to back our dreams and aren’t we lucky we live in a world that we can!
The author is not the first to denigrate Elon Musk and this time he could right about SpaceX and its plans. He may also have to eat humble pie as others have done who laughed at Elon Must over 20 years ago when he stated he was going to build reusable space rockets.
...."it’s also made plutocrats of blue collar engineers who were paid bonuses in shares."
Indeed, but "engineers" in the US refers to people with between one and three university degrees in engineering. They work at desks, perhaps with occasional visits to work sites while wearing hardhats. They are not blue collar. "Engineers" in the UK seems to refer to mechanics.
Well said, Alys, you have got the beauty of Capitalism absolutely right! As it happens I am a fan of the late James Lovelock who was ridiculed for his theory of Gaia that everything on our planet is interconnected but proved right just before his 100th Birthday and in his last book Novacene he thought it was bonkers to go try to live on Mars, but as you say, we love to back our dreams and aren’t we lucky we live in a world that we can!