Elon Musk has decried a wave of “insane” 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 Sweden’s 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: “This is insane.”

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    NASA could do what SpaceX does if we gave NASA the money we gave SpaceX. I won’t even give him credit for that.

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      And don’t change their goals every 4-8 years. It is hard to accomplish a 10 year project if you can’t guarantee you’ll still be working on it in 10 years.

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      Wtf are you on about? We give SpaceX nowhere near the funds we give NASA.

      We gave NASA $25 billion this year.

      SpaceX was awarded a $2.9B contract to fund the entire “land starship on the moon” program (a non cost+ contact I might add) spanning multiple years. They launched two sets of crew to the iss this year, at an estimated cost of ~700m. They have had one cargo mission this year at a cost of about $150m.

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        Let’s give NASA that 2.9b for a new program then. That’s a 10% budget increase.

        Hell give me $2.9b and I’ll find people to put us on the moon. Elon didn’t do shit except take tax money, and give it to smart people, while keeping a cut for himself.

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          Do it then. Nobody else in the industry seems able to.

          When it comes to space programs and launch costs/waste, SpaceX is at the bottom of the list. Nobody puts stuff in space cheaper than they do. And not by a small margin.

          For comparison, the cost for SLS to launch into earth orbit is $4.1B. TO LAUNCH. Development costs for that program have exceeded $27B. They have been working on it since 2011. It has launched exactly one time over a year ago.

          The entire contract to SpaceX to fully develop and launch a moon lander is less than the cost of launching a single SLS rocket.

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            Alright I’ll do it when I get the cheque.

            The stuff they put into space cheaply is actually debris from their poorly built launch pads that ricocheted off a school bus.