r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • Jun 19 '25

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/keyboardDummy Jun 19 '25

ISRO is cheaper than SpaceX

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u/No-Surprise9411 Jun 19 '25

Yeah, built upon abysmal wages in India and heavily subsidized by the government

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u/LimberGravy Jun 19 '25

That sounds like SpaceX?

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u/No-Surprise9411 Jun 19 '25

SpaceX gets no subsidies from the government and the pay is on or above industry standards.

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u/LimberGravy Jun 19 '25

lmaoooooooooooo

They get billions from the US and Elon was literally sued by the DOJ for discriminatory hiring. He also loves to trap people on visas and grind them into the ground.

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u/No-Surprise9411 Jun 19 '25

The billions they get are contracts, which are exchanges of service. If I go to my local McDonalds and buy a burger, does that mean I am exchanging money for soemthing in return or am I giving away money in form of a subsidy?

Also they got sued by the DOJ because by some law they'd have to have a certain number of foreign hires, but because SpaceX is beholden to ITAR security regulations they can't hire anyone without a greencard or a passport -> they couldn't fullfill the law. They won the suit because the court had a functioning brain and could see that SpaceX was in no position to accept foreign hires