" In my experience bureaucracy is a function of size, not ownership"
I've been in a few large corporations, latest one is the biggest. The bureaucracy statement is true from the 30+ years I've been working,
I've been subcontracted out a fair few times to government departments, and the only things done worse than private companies is the extremely understaffed departments and the sheer lack of money to improve anything.

Since the whole MBA fascination with profitable next quarter at any cost, that is the most inefficient way to get anything done.

Flat earther style denial here.
Go to youtube. Search for FSD.
Now watch them. Most are done by fans who are showing off this how "great" it is.
Then see how many times they have to intervene.
Then realise that cameras can be easily blinded or fooled, and that not having other sensors is just plain dumb.

Of course, you won't do that, you've already bought into the hype. I bet you even think that your glorious CEO isn't far right....

It also took out most of the compound surrounding it, another quality decision by musk and fellows.
As others have pointed out many times before, stop trying to normalize this nonsense. You don't need catastrophic failures to be able to get to where you need to be, as evidenced by every other vehicle manufacturer.
It is the height of hypocrisy to whale on others for "wasteful government subsidies" while you've literally wasted 100s of millions on launches that should not have gone ahead.
So please, all you musk techbros, realise that your guy is not clever, and there is no progress in exploding rockets. No matter how much copium you inhale from twitter.

Lol, X is only free speech when you align with its owner. There's a reason why its turned into a cesspit of far right nonsense, and grok had a meltdown due to elon meddling in its default prompt.

Posh privately schooled out of touch ex-politician who literally torpedoed his political party for a chance at power.
Nothing to see here, move along. Are we that starved for content that we have to give so much oxygen to idiots and their uninformed opinions?
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Funnily enough, do not believe the brexit poster above. I have multiple family members in the police. Surprisingly enough, the express and mail actually lie about this stuff, and there aren't "no-go areas" or rape gangs roaming the streets. 9 out of 10 sex crimes are performed by white men.

Not even close. That data is so obfuscated it's nowhere near reality
There was never any fall in consumer price. Also, prices for wholesale passed onto the consumer have gone down 2-3 times in the last 20 years, but the other 17-18 years they've gone up.
Source - myself and my bills
Example - best I could obtain electricity for in 1996 was 9.0p/kwh. That "average" is not across retail consumers, but businesses too who could source at prices of a fraction of a penny.
According to the special spreadsheet, apparently the average cost was 11.14p/kwh for 2022. *Checks google and bills* huh, average retail price was 34p that year

I'll also point out that 1990 is when the privatisation actually happened:
1990 6.84p
1991 7.41p
1992 7.71p
1993 7.87p
That's what the actual prices were. Those look like "significant falls" eh?

Deflect & project, that's all you right wingers do.
Last I checked, your tribe are constantly being caught taking bribes (2 billion for trumps family for example)
Don't forget, Hunter Biden isn't in office nor living in the whitehouse, unlike your orange idol and his family was. Such a great businessman, how many trillion did he add to the debt?

I bet you think the GOP isn't responsible for the impending shutdown....

"hard left?"
Oh you must be one of those alt-right people who think China is communist and Rs like MTG and Gaetz are somehow sane.
Elon musk is pretty much like you, so of course you adore him. Shame he's such a try hard and has the same faults as your other idol - a narcissist, takes credit for others hard work, and think they're the smartest person in the room.
Can't wait for the cheeto man to be behind bars....

Median private pension pot for the UK by the age of 65 is around £66000.
That means if you take an annuity, you'll get a paltry £3300 per year.

£1,000,000 in a pension pot is literally £50k per year for an annuity.
Retirement for medical staff is 65 years.
The poor 1%ers! Those not in the NHS would literally dream of having a pension pot even a quarter of that.
Doctors and consultants pension tax woes is not the problem of workforce, it's brexit.

Agreed, they keep pushing the pension age back to fill the imaginary hole of the "national credit card", so I hope you've already started your own pension to counter that somewhat.
The French have quite a good pension - up to 50% of your average highest paying 25 years of work. A massive top end of 39000 per year.
Spain is 900 euro per month and is claimable just before 61 years of age.
The UK? It's get a flat rate of £185 per week. The equivalent of £9600 per year. After you're 67.
It's funny that the UK media complain about the French and striking, yet never reveal about how much better they have it. If people knew that others strike and more over pushing back retirement ages or removing benefits, perhaps the country would be a better place for it?

Yes, it's being lazy to not want to have to work for the last 2 decades of your life (if you're lucky).
"The American Dream" was the ideology that you've been brainwashed with, and it shows. There are countries that are exploring 4 day work weeks, basic income, and not working overtime.
Guess what they found? Productivity for 4 day work weeks was about the same as Fridays were already coasting days. People were happier under basic income as they no longer felt like they had to earn a decent wage or suffer. People enjoyed their weekends and downtime way more than when beholden to working longer hours from overtime.

The pandemic made the idiots in charge realise that working from home and flex hours isn't going to cost them money. Eventually, all people will realise that your worth is not based on your job role, your hours worked, where you work, how much you earn, or not having to prove how hard you can work.

Shame the right wing idiots in the UK government are too busy worrying about Roald Dahls books being updated to not quite be so abhorrent to our current social norms instead of trying to come up with something to undo brexit.
But then again, they caused it along with their fawning newspapers, so looks like the UK is going to have to pay the piper for believing their media.

Roads paved with gold, less red tape to treat poor immigrants like animals, and making the rich richer.
The ruling party that is at fault for everything has been huffing it's own farts so long that they literally think that they can say something and it makes it the truth, or makes it happen - which is aided by the BBC and all but 2 newspapers.

The current real state of the country is:
Nearly all public sectors are on strike as they've had pay freezes and personnel cuts for 12 years
Ironically, the government has given more money to the private firms to offset losses caused by strikes, far in excess of what paying the people would cost
The NHS is broken, and brexit along with policy changes (nurses bursary, etc) has meant there are thousands of holes to fill for personnel
Almost daily scandals of corruption and dumping taxpayers money to their friends has caused even the most stupidest to realise that its actually the government in charge at fault, in spite of the media spin

It's all nonsense to deflect the current crisis' in the NHS, rail, etc.
When more than 50% of the papers are crowing about how is going to "fix" things (but not how or when), you know it's the usual news cycle reset:
1. Halve inflation
2. Grow the economy
3. Reduce debt
4. Cut NHS waiting lists
5. Stop migrant boats.

All nonsense.
These points all contradict themselves. Spend more while reducing debt? The tories equate grow the economy with tax breaks for the rich, so that will do zero for that. I'd also like to see how they plan to cut spending while needing to increase it to stop the various sectors striking?
Again, the media needs to point out these fallacies, not present them as the government is doing a good job. It's ridiculous. This shower has literally spent more money propping up the railway franchises than actually giving the rail workers the payrise they need.

After 12 years of the media kissing their collective arses, the tories are at the end state of believing their own lies.

If numeracy went up, then the people would no longer believe the lies of the "magic money tree" or "national credit card", which only comes out when tories want to give money away to their donors.
The UK needs to vote in a party that will basically kill off the newspapers, as the older generations need to stop thinking that something in newsprint is the truth as they "aren't allowed" to print falsehood. They also need to fix the BBC to stop being "neutral" and start being "pro truth", and perhaps only having people in leadership and politics which aren't retired or actually active tories.