Said Alexey Firsov, founder of the Platforma sociological research and consulting firm, quoted in "Memes, merchandise and Mars cocktails: Russia’s mania for Elon Musk has no bounds" (WaPo).
And there's this, from a 29-year-old Moscow bartender who attracted the attention of SpaceX by applying for the job of bartending on its mission to Mars: "Probably the decisive thing that inspired me to follow Musk is when he said that you shouldn’t be afraid of failure. I think, here in Russia, if you make one mistake, it follows you. His view seems to be that if you make a mistake, you get experience and learn from it and won’t make it again. I think it’s unique for people in Russia."
In Russia, we're told, people love wearing Elon Musk imagery on their shirts:
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The richest man in the world isn't enough for Musk...he gets to be a pop icon as well. I bet he gets all the great chicks too. Wait...
"What makes the muskrat guard his Musk?"
Those goofy Russians with their oddball ways.
gahrie bait.
applying for the job of bartending on its mission to Mars:
Ferris Buller... He's gonna be a fry cook on Venus.
Musk has made tons of money via subsidies from the government. That seems very Russian to me.
Cult of personality. Stalin did it better.
Capitalism is an adaptive, market-based (e.g. democratic) economic system to optimize production, pricing, and distribution of finitely available and accessible resources, where the people... persons retain their earned and gifted capital for paying taxes and to invest as they see fit in exchanges.
Musk has made tons of money via subsidies from the government. That seems very Russian to me.
Ha ha. Elon Musk's SpaceX company during the last few years — due to its economical, reusable rockets — has completely destroyed the Russian space launch business, and is now proceeding to do the same thing to the European (ESA) space launch business.
It's the most productive “subsidies” the U.S. government has ever seen!
In Russia, we're told, people love wearing Elon Musk imagery on their shirts
We are told a number of things Russians do with Americans by WaPo, but in the past 5 years, has any of it been true? Oh wait, there is more evidence provided here than in all the months of Mueller investigation.
'Musk has made tons of money via subsidies from the government. That seems very Russian to me.'
Yes...he is still a genius, but he figured out a good angle before anyone else.
The faster you fail, the faster you iterate and learn.
At least the Russians are not destroying Math and Science by idiotic CRT rules that will end with an IQ of 97 being high.
Musk has made tons of money via subsidies from the government. That seems very Russian to me.
@JsimeRoberto, those same subsidies were available to you. And me. And everyone else. Yet he’s the one who’s rich.
Yes, Russian billionaires, Russian businessmen, and Russian politicians are all horribly corrupt, but Russia must be tired by now of always being the foil so that American billionaires, businessmen, and politicians can portray themselves as worthy and honorable -- not to mention that we always make Russians the villains in our crummy movies.
Mr. musk deserves every bit of fandom for his exuberant engineering attitude. did anyone else read his 45-page or so vision of getting a colony on Mars from several years back? It was free when I downloaded it, but the next time i went to share w someone, it cost $60 to see a copy online. He had it beautifully thought through in rational stages, and a major necessity was going to be the thousands of reusable rocket ships that would be needed to pull it off.
It reminds me of back when John Glenn was an astronaut, and as the space race developed, we suddenly had teflon frying pans and tasty Tang powder mix for nutritious instant orange juice, just like in space.
In the same vein, no matter what happens on Mars, who can imagine the tasty world of wonder we might get from elon's efforts?
gahrie bait.
Completely.
It's slightly ironic that they love him in Russia for the same reasons they hate him in Washington D.C..
"did anyone else read his 45-page or so vision of getting a colony on Mars from several years back?"
Wish I had.
JaimeRoberto: "Musk has made tons of money via subsidies from the government. That seems very Russian to me."
That darn Musk single-handedly moved the US back to #1 in orbital launches and he was paid by the US govt to deliver those payloads.....that would otherwise have ridden to orbit on ChiCom, russki or EU rockets.
That's not fair to the Space Industrial Complex/Planned Cost Overruns-Permanent Jobs Programs!
One of the USA's overlooked influences: baseball.
A young kid -- any American boy -- at-bat is not only unlikely to get a hit, he is probably going to strikeout.
They learn at an early age that failing -- in view of everyone -- is not the end of the world and that other chances to succeed will soon appear.
Meanwhile, in Europe, Asia and the rest of the world, boys are kicking a ball.
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