He will get all the contracts. Probably defund NASA. And destroy anyone with a pending lawsuit (USAID).
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Not to mention all those undersea cables being cut. Well gee, I wonder who stands to profit from that with their network of telecom satellites polluting our skies.
He wouldn't defund NASA; he makes money from their contracts.
He would kill NASA's research, development, and engineering budget and turn the agency into a skeleton crew. Then he would use their lack of progress (that he caused) to justify raising budgets to contract work out to the private sector (and specifically SpaceX).
He doesn't, almost all of SpaceX's profit is Starlink. On NASA contracts they bid low and lose money to block competition. Elon bid 2.9 billion for a lunar lander so Jeff Bezos's company wouldn't get it, and it's going to cost Elon 4x that much at minimum if he actually has to finish it, which is why he's trying to kill the moon program.
Early on NASA contracts were funding SpaceX, now he has to pull up that ladder to protect his monopoly, and it's cheaper to just kill NASA entirely.
He can still get government money but once all the technical people inside the government are gone it would work like Boring Company. Draw some CGI of a space monorail and sell it to congress with no process or oversight and grift off hype and fomo.
He's already said he'll replace air traffic controllers with SpaceX people, so yeah.. Pretty damn obvious what the end goal is here.
Yeah SpaceX is what planes crave! It's got electrolytes!
It takes years to be certified with ATC. Yea the initial training is several months, but more time on the job is required until you're fully signed off. Just insane to try and circumvent so much of that.
What if you fire the current federal workers, hire them at SpeceX (for less pay, less job security, and less benefits) and then charge the government a higher price for the contract?
Also, they can probably just reduce the hours needed to become certified.
Make sure they pledge allegiance to something, or like swear an oath to someone!
OF COURSE they did.
Ha. Big surprise. Prepare for mushes companies to get all the contracts
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Lucky him.