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[joshcryer]

8. Pretty much, he admittedly despises unoins.

But as far as I understand no one gets less than around 90k a year. It's good money, but epically fucked up hours. No overtime. I don't mean to diminish the workers at SpaceX, but you might be able to pull the same wage working in fast food, assuming you weren't salaried and got lots of overtime. I may be exaggerating a wee bit here, mind you, but it's the same level of wage slavery, imho.

I think Musk gets away with it because his workers are extreme idealists who want to see "his dream" realized. To me it's like Apple, workers, working their asses off, to achieve "the dream." Hopefully SpaceX licenses the tech out that the wage slaves discovered / researched / perfected. Then we could have non-wage slave companies providing similar services.