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[–] 33 points 3 weeks ago* (4 children)

SpaceX employees seduced by Mars missions are now supporting authoritarianism, speech suppression, electoral rigging, violent invasions, and petrocracy.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Funnily enough, some years back a recruiter came knocking for me to interview for SpaceX. I was not especially interested (not due to any particular insight to the true Musk or anything, just didn't feel like it), and the recruitor seemed sincerely baffled why I didn't immediately fall to the floor in awe at the possibility.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Yeah, at the time a huge factor was that I had like 4 years equivalent pay in bonuses that I would have had to forfeit, so a big hiring bonus would have been needed to offset that.

    Plus I hate interviewing anyway.

    Further I have had some experience with a "hot" employer and my experience was that they knew how coveted they are and generally had an attitude of "you should be grateful you get to work here at all" compared to a "wow, you actually are willing to work for us?" Attitude at a less well regarded employer. I have no insight on SpaceX, but direct or indirect experience with a handful of similarly "amazing" employers, so maybe SpaceX might have been different, but based on the musk treatment is twitter employees, I'm suspicious.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    The usual sci-fi trope is that earth is the aggressor towards mars or other settlements. We need a new story about how all the wannabe Atlas Shrugged/40k mechanicum/racial preservation types go to Mars and are now being a bunch of jangoistic fascists.

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