At SpaceX, worker injuries soar — Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds, and on…::Reuters documented more than 600 workplace injuries at SpaceX. Employees say they’re paying the price for Elon Musk’s push to reach Mars at breakneck speed.
Holy shit… So what does the Muskrat have to say about this?
Jesus fucking christ. This man is such a caricature of an evil capitalist villain.
Really went from me being like “haha, funny evil capitalist caricature for comedy sake, but this is obviously exaggerated” as a teen to… Well… this. Not to mention oil barons literally putting our future at risk.
I seriously don’t get how some people can be such caricatures. It’s like they’re almost intentionally being evil, even when it’s counter to logic or profit.
But it isn’t counter to logic or profit.
If other people don’t play into what you care about, then they aren’t included in the logical equation. The only goal is personal profit.
And there are some counter examples, but generally CEOs of big companies like this make a shit ton of money. Personal profit. If the company goes under, it doesn’t matter because they’ve made their personal profit.
Shirking safety isn’t conductive to profit though. If am employee dies it doesn’t benefit you. Even if you literally have zero empathy and only care about the bottom line.
A dead employee may cost less than the safety measures that would have protected them.
The truth is that the belief that the caricature was exaggerated is simply PR. They’re actually just as evil as people made them out to be, not less.
Yeah, the older I get the more true this seems.
Which honestly is fucking bonkers to me. This is seriously who we’re letting run the world?
He thinks he’s cool, Gen X crystal pepsi cool.
Hey now, no need to get too crazy here.
This shows that he not only is willing to risk his employees safety for the sake of a “greater good” or at least a profitable business. But the fact that he not only ignores safety practices but actively removes those that are already in place just because they don’t please him aesthetically and he doesn’t want to see them is a whole other level of egoism and carelessness. He really doesn’t give a damn about other people
He’s a man baby, he doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself and his own ambition. He thinks paying people means you own them, he’ll just lie and bs his was to more VC money over and over and get what he wants because no matter what, he’s regarded as some kind of ‘genius’
He should be held to account, but won’t.
What did the UN pin the value of a human life at in US dollars? In that sense the ultra wealthy can literally afford death and other workplace accidents.
It’s disgusting, but I can totally see some rich chucklefucks viewing this through that lens.
Back in the day, deaths used to be openly priced into large projects. Freakonomics did an interesting cost analysis on the value of human life using highway speeds vs productivity lost reducing those speeds to save lives. Probably not overly accurate but it was alarmingly low.
These numbers mean nothing without a reference to compare with other similar industries. The article does include a number from other rocket manufacturers(?), though I’d be curious to see how it compares to other private companies, not, like, nasa, haha
Why not NASA? I hope you aren’t implying that private industry should be held to a lower safety standard than government
Not necessarily, but also government spends an inordinate amount of money on extra processes and moves much slower, which could naturally lead to fewer accidents because they’re just doing less, and also the government outsources quite a lot of labor which could include the more accident-prone aspects