{"id":491129,"date":"2026-06-09T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/491129\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:03:08","slug":"opinion-spacex-trillion-dollar-ipo-reveals-elon-musks-greatest-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/491129\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | SpaceX trillion-dollar IPO reveals Elon Musk\u2019s greatest contradiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"BRX6ZE4KENGH3NLNBV2UWN3Y4A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The word \u201cgovernment\u201d appears over and over in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1181412\/000162828026040364\/spaceexplorationtechnologib.htm#id286866c4c474ba490d6531a57db9e93_66\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the IPO prospectus<\/a> for Space Exploration Technologies Corp., the Elon Musk rocket company better known as SpaceX. There\u2019s a good reason the word shows up so frequently in a document that details the history, financial performance and investment risks of this extraordinary enterprise: Without government, it wouldn\u2019t exist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The word \u201cgovernment\u201d appears over and over in the IPO prospectus for Space Exploration Technologies Corp., the Elon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-491129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}