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I hope Kamala wins and then starts canceling contracts with his companies. He deserves to be ostracized from society for this and many other things.
I hope not. It would be a shame to dump SpaceX in particular for purely political reasons, when (so far) they've been the best contracter by far.
As the head of NASA said, they don't work with Elon Musk, they work with SpaceX, and the relationship has been good.
I do hope they leave X though, and just promote a Fediverse instance or something instead. That's more of Elon's pet project/playground now.
Nationalize spacex.
Our supreme court is already showing us that laws and precedent don't mean anything anymore. Might as well use the chaos for some good.
I didn’t realize that. Too bad Space X can’t divest from that turd.
Or Harris can just fund NASA to build the rockets themselves and steal all the talent from X.
She could literally nationalize all his interests, and he is so unlikeable even his investors would probably welcome a government buyout on the cheap.
The thing about SpaceX and NASA is that their purposes aren't really the same. NASA does space exploration and science type work to a large extent, which requires them getting their equipment up into space, but since rocket launches themselves are no longer the frontier of space technology, they don't really want to be in charge of launching everything up the that people want launched (which is a lot these days), they want to focus their efforts on pushing the boundary. It would be like trying to solve the problems with Boeing by making the FAA build all the country's planes instead. Not to say that nationalization is necessarily bad, but more that if it were done, it would make more sense to keep SpaceX it's own entity as a state run corporation than to fold it's commercial rocket launching into NASA.
Alternatively, something else I could imagine threatening Musk with, if the government had the stomach for it, would be to seize SpaceX and then make it employee-owned, which avoids changing it's competitiveness in the launch industry (it has become so dominant because, for the moment, it has actually done a pretty good job at reducing launch costs and improving rocket technology, and doing anything too disruptive with it while it remains in that position might disrupt that), but takes away Elon's share of the money and decision making.
Hopefully they can, some day. Maybe another entity will make Elon an offer he can't refuse when he needs cash, as the synergy with his other ventures doesn't seem huge.
Elon may be a face of the Company, he's not responsible for much other than general long term vision. Despite what he may claim, he isn't handling the engineering directly, and Gwynne Shotwell has been running operations for nearly it's entire existence.