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Yes. People working for SpaceX, for example, are doing so voluntarily. It is however incredibly disingenuous to use that as a justification for shit working conditions. The same is true in the game industry - yes, the game developers and programmers are not being chained to their offices, and yet it is still not OK to exploit them.
I'm not sure he gets paid to be either a "space tech jesus" or "fucking tech genius"
Did I say he was being paid to be that? How is this relevant to what I wrote?
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I'm not sure he gets paid to be either a "space tech jesus" or "fucking tech genius" hes running commercial ventures and leading them, a job title that most call CEO, but given he is a bit cooky he may have adopted one of those titles?!
and as for exploiting grads... are they being chained up or are the voluntarily going to work for a company that is widely known and easily re-searchable...? i suspect its the latter and if they are being mistreated then lots of them will be taking a load of experience from their exploitation and toddling off to one of the more established car companies looking to start producing electric cars...
Friends who work in the UK EV market suggest that knowledge is a huge shortage right now and its experience and not monetary reward that it causing that shortage.