• filister@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The same with Musk. People are seeing him as the sole engineer of Tesla and SpaceX while in reality anonymous engineers did all this possible.

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      8 months ago

      And it doesn’t help Musk calls himself lead engineer or whatever at times.

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        8 months ago

        I think in one of his autobiographies he was claiming that he self educated how to build rockets from some books and I wonder how much of this is true and how much is coming from his ego.

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          8 months ago

          From Mr. “make rocket pointier because LOL”? I’ll put my money on the latter option.