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[joshcryer]

12. Yeah, ULA = United Launch Alliance.

Which is held by union labor for the most part. With Russian built engines, mind you...

But yeah, your friend wouldn't like it. I think Musk is so anti-union it's pretty crazy. He's literally a union buster, and thanks to NLRB rules he can get away with it.

It's one reason I don't really respect Musk, I admire him, mind you, he's achieved some amazing stuff (especially pertaining to climate change mitigation, which to me is the most important thing humanity faces), and I admire his efforts to reduce spaceflight 100 fold, but man, the dude doesn't care about exploiting the crap out of his employees. I know he's a programmer, but I doubt he spent nearly 1/10th of the time laboring for the stuff that made him successful (Paypal, etc). Admittedly, I think his companies (SpaceX in particular) are on the precipice of failure, so he exploits that "aggressively ideological labor" as much as he can. But it can only last so long.

If the next Tesla product isn't able to be sold with competitive labor practices, it will crash and burn. And I'll sell my stocks immediately.*

*I have some significant investment in Tesla, disclaimer, etc. I am confident they will achieve their goals, but at the first indication they fail, I sell.