Blue Origin in the news
5Blue Origin “bet and lost” on lunar lander, NASA says.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/29/22689729/blue-origin-moon-lunar-lander-price-nasa-hls-foia
Blue Origin’s workplace culture labeled as “toxic.”
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Now the FCC is looking into the safety allegations.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58760764
@blaineg
ITYM FAA.
@blaineg Yep, and too late to correct it.
I was also reading articles about the FCC and SHAKEN/STIR.
@blaineg
I’ve heard it said that Bezos is having the most expensive ($$$,$$$,$$$,$$$,$$$.$$)
midlife crisis ever.
Bezos blames NASA instead of himself. Okay, maybe it’s his droids trying the gambit instead of him personally, but I have to think that this particular project is something of a hobby for him, and the “first ask for twice what you’ll eventually accept” strategy is straight out of Chapter One of every text for the 1301-level Greed As A Lifestyle course that’s part of the core undergrad MBA-prep program.
@werehatrack
Harvard MBA I think
@f00l @werehatrack idk what bezos deal is but instead of making a real rocket or fulfilling their engine contract “make me a giant dick that can barely get it up” is funny. It sounds be better for them if he was not involved at all.
I know I know we should have more than one viable launch provider and technically blue origin is “furthest” along. But they are really not doing well and haven’t been
@werehatrack Studies I have seen is that students who major in business are the only students at a university who leave the university more self centered/unethical than when they entered. I can’t help but think some of it is the finance/econ focus on people are motivated to always act in their own self interests (self interest with guile) and that is policed by consequences that are supposed to happen to them due to market forces (open market) if they stray too far down paths that are undesirable. Except we don’t really have the kind of open market and open market forces those fields would demand for that to work. Not to mention people are far more complex. But it gets taught in a simplistic way. I spend a lot of time fighting that in the courses I teach. Using a 10 week online competition I was really pleased that 3 of my MBA “companies” came in in the top 100 (out of nearly 3400) of socially responsible companies. Financially one of those was #17 as well. Talk about the teachable moment in class.