Reusable rockets and geopolitics

[Mike]

Really interesting video by Berletic. He argues complacent, profit-driven monopolies by nature can't keep up technologically with innovative, purpose-driven enterprises like SpaceX. The US is lagging behind in the space race; Russia and China are emulating SpaceX's reuable rockets. See source for full summary.

 

[Macrobius]

I wonder what the ethnic breakdown of SpaceX's employees is.

We tend to think of 'The American Military-Industrial Complex' as if it were still run by a bunch of White Guys.

With Jews now frantically declaring 'we're NOT White like those horrid anti-semite klansmen crackers and Morgan-Stanley WASPs' and White Boy representation in elite colleges suppressed to sub 10% levels since Ygg pointed it out a few decades ago (almost a full generation turnover or even two, given 'college age'), the White Boy MIC of the Sputnik era and the Moon Landings, is now a grandfather's tale, or older.

 

[Mike]

Elon Musk has a specific vision he wants to see realized, so I suspect he's very pragmatic about hiring practices. My guess is that the tech/engineering staff is mostly White and East Asian. Perhaps a few South Asians and Middle Easterners. Certainly not anything near all-White, but also probably with very few if any Blacks.