I have been watching various interviews with people (hated old knowledgeable white men that is), and most would have never taken a job with that Oceangate because of the nonserious nature and safety of that CEO and his submersible.
The Rush guy seems upbeat and friendly and inspiring, but that doesn’t mean he was running a tight ship or that he made good decisions particularly when his enterprise was for tourist reasons only.
Reminds me of how so many of today’s young and young-ish liberals in business seem to have such inflated notions of their own capabilities, and have blind faith that “science” can make anything possible. I think it starts with the “progressive” mindset that believes anything new must be better, and that everything that existed before their “brilliance” arrived on the scene is “old and outdated.” These companies also tend to be disproportionately marketing-focused, which I think is a bit of monkey see, monkey do, imitating what they’ve seen from companies like Apple. This effect is clearly visible in how pretty much every “hip, progressive” company today announces products through the same kind of stilted, pretentious, slickly produced events that Apple uses. They’re all imitating a style, but unfortunately in many cases are apparently making engineering and quality a lower priority to the “sizzle.”
Today’s leftist entrepreneurs just seem to think that if they talk about something then that makes it possible. Maybe that comes from the “everyone gets a trophy” generation, and how “awesome” and “special” they were all told they were. This all explains how so many people were easily taken in by a complete fraud like Elizabeth Holmes. Today’s leftists are superficial by nature themselves, so they’re easily fooled by anyone who displays the correct “style”, spouts the right “hip” jargon, and who is hyper-ambitious and charismatic. Unfortunately, these same people are famously allergic to facts, logic, and objective truth. That can be catastrophic for them and their endeavors.