Elon Musk has decried a wave of āinsaneā strikes focused on Tesla workshops in Sweden, as workers target the US electric car manufacturer in a strike calling for collective bargaining rights.
In what has been portrayed as the largest fight in decades to save Swedenās union model from global labour practices, the powerful trade union IF Metall has been leading a strike across eight Tesla workplaces in Sweden for five weeks.
It is the first time workers for the US carmaker have gone on strike and on Thursday, Musk, the tech billionaire and chief executive of Tesla, made his feelings clear, writing on X, formerly Twitter: āThis is insane.ā
Doubtful, big administrations have big issues with productivity and meeting goals. Not that I think it is thanks to Musk, but startups/scaleups organizations are often much more efficient than traditional companies and administrations.
I think every engineer who has worked both at a big traditional company and a startup can confirm.
Iāve worked at both and cannot confirm. Startups are good at shipping new features, but thatās usually because we donāt spend as long planning, have less legacy code to work around, and most importantly, we cut a lot of corners. These behaviors are not good for space travel
I think SpaceX is demonstrating that a lot of IT startup methodology actually works for the space industry too. Most famously, accepting that making errors makes you learn faster, with their many rocket explosions, this is like short iterations in IT. This is opposed to the years long planning and studying to make sure everything is 100% perfect before launch of traditional space industry. They are out-competing every public and private space industries (such as ArianeGroup) with their methods, it seems to work pretty good.
Exploding rockets over populated areas and putting debris in the sky is bad. Wasting money in explosions is also bad. I donāt think startup mentality belongs anywhere outside of SaaS. If you disagree on this then weāre likely not going to reach common ground when talking about spaceX.
I also donāt agree that theyāre out competing NASA, nor do I agree that thatās even a worthwhile measure here because something so dangerous shouldnāt be subject to the market. Getting exclusive contracts from the government is too political to truly say theyāre better. The F-23 was better than the F-22 but the 22 won the contract anyway.
Startups are the land of the MVP, and I donāt mean Most Valuable Player. You donāt want to be sending MVPs into space? Donāt use a private company. NASA has bureaucracy but it also has stability, accountability, and the ability to think long-term.
