[ttobbaybbob]

it's nice to be wholeheartedly rooting for a company and the technological progress it represents

[flandish]

Let’s be honest: I’m rooting for the technological progress. The company operates like all companies - exploitation and shareholder manipulation.

The progress is a nice outcome. Even if it makes the asshole owner richer.

Especially because the progress should be open for any tech funded by taxpayer dollars.

[TMWNN]

>Especially because the progress should be open for any tech funded by taxpayer dollars.

Where did this idea that SpaceX is heavily subsidized by the government come from?

No, the government being a customer != subsidies. (If anything, the government is paying less than market rate, thanks to SpaceX's reusability.)

[galacticaactual]

Lol. Ask some of the early-mid stage employees whether they were exploited given current valuations.

[easytiger]

> The company operates like all companies - exploitation and shareholder manipulation

I don#t suppose there is any chance you can explain what this means. Shareholder manipulation? What exploitation do you reductively observe?