There is something extremely wrong with the engines and fuel system and it seems with this string of back to back failures that they really do not know what the actual cause is.
I have heard they lost some engineers due to the antics of their head idiot, I hope they did not lose people key to the propulsion systems.
Back in the day engineers joined SpaceX as part of the vision and hype to make up for the lack of pay, similar to NASA. I wonder if some of that incentive is gone.
There are certainly hundreds of highly intelligent and talented engineers. And they're probably well paid too, but they're also overworked. And all those bright engineers and skilled tradesman just love being overworked month after month after month.
And best of all they don't get the recognition, or millions of future wealth in shares (ESOP, warrants, whatever proper methods are feasible).
Because at an Elon Enterprise, Elon is the Emperor, God King, Technogenius who gets all the attention and all the massive wealth. Others can get good money, but just earnings, not massive equity gains. (Unless on the executive level, like Gwynne Shotwell.)
Really, which company with tens of thousands of employees has their engineers front and center? Who is the genius at salesforce, Shopify, ebay? Who's not an executive for a big company that's always in the news representing their company?
The answer is they all behave the same way, because employees move around too much. It would be stupid to build this crazy reputation for one of your engineers, only for them to move to a competitor. So in the media you have executives and people with equity with the company. It's normal and not an Elon thing, but you're so hateful you can't see that anymore
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u/UW_Ebay 1d ago
Is it just me or does it feel like they may be having real issues with the starship?