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You're thinking about SpaceX as just a random company in a random industry. It's not. SpaceX is the space company. On PR area they compete with NASA, the space agency. I can imagine that for many SpaceX employees, their work is synonymous with getting America back into space exploration game.

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And I still think that is an American cultural quirk. To me that notion is bizarre.

What you people are missing is that Americans don't care what you think.

You seem to think it's a value judgement. It's not. I'm not saying it's bad. I'm saying it's strange to us.

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