[Source.](https://spectator.org/elon-musk-enemy-of-the-managers-spacex/) > ***He is the last true representative of an old American archetype: the eccentric, irrepressible entrepreneur capitalist.*** > Boeing’s very public series of embarrassing malfunctions have been analyzed and debated at length and explained quite comprehensively by individuals with far more expertise in the airplane business than me. But one need not know anything about aeronautics to understand that things are not going well for Boeing, and that the company’s approach is clearly broken. That much was made clear in a new Ars Technica piece from Eric Berger, walking readers through the race between Boeing and SpaceX to develop an astronaut capsule for space travel — a race that Boeing decisively lost. The story begins with the two companies competing for a NASA bid...