Die USA entscheiden, dass SpaceX einer Fluggesellschaft gleicht, und nehmen es vom Labor Relations Act aus. Die USA bezeichnen SpaceX als gemeinsamen Luftfrachtführer und werden das Unternehmen nach dem Eisenbahnrecht regulieren.

Yeah self policing is a great idea. Remember this in months or years when stories start rolling out about how screwed everything is.

This will add to an argument that SpaceX is too important and must be nationalized for space capability and security in the future.
They are not like a normal company. Understood.

Next up, X will be labeled as a church.

I wonder how much prison labor they have used since startup?🤔

We’re watching all of these tech companies essentially merge with the US gov, the people better wake up in a hurry because the hour is later than we think

That explains why their rockets keep exploding.

It pays to bribe the current administration. They don’t care and will take as many bribes and ass kisses as they can. I don’t understand how people can still support this blatant corruption and very friendly laws towards the biggest payer of the administration… Americans don’t give a fuck about the wrong shit.

SpaceX should be nationalized by the next administration.

I know it sounds shady, but under the language of the Railway Labor Act (the law at hand here that preempts a lot of other labor laws), it seems like the right outcome.

The RLA applies to rail and air carriers, and it uses statutory definitions set within the law itself rather than common-law definitions. So legal interpretations have to use that definition instead. The RLA defines a rail/air carrier as:

> any company directly or indirectly owned, controlled by, or under common control with such a railroad or airline that operates equipment or facilities or performs services in connection with transportation of property or passengers

While it doesn’t give an explicit definition for „airline“, it does treat basically anything that carries people or goods by air as an airline for its purposes.

Given the definition the RLA, it seems pretty reasonable and way more legally consistent to call SpaceX an air carrier for the purposes of the RLA. SpaceX (and every private launch company) definitely carries goods and/or people by air–their rockets literally fly though the air, obviously, and they carry goods. By the usages of the words in the RLA, the fact that it’s not open to the general public isn’t a requirement to be a common carrier like it is for other non-rail/air companies.

Sucks, but from the text of the laws I tend to agree with this outcome. Congress should change the laws to apply the common-law usage of „common carrier“ to airlines or make an explicit carve-out for space companies if they want this addressed. It shouldn’t be up to the NLRB (nor is it appropriate) to try and back-fit outdated laws with obsolete definitions to modern space companies.

So it will be subsidized for life. Fuck Elon.

At least previous generations had the decency to pretend that we didn’t live in a *pay to play* plutocracy. 

The billionaire Epstein class are shamelessly thumbing their noses their noses at us.

Conveeeeeeniently ahead of IPO.