07/06/2026
This is something Socialism could never do and Elon Musk has benefited society and his employees better as any employer. The guy is a genius and visionary who takes the risks no one else will do.
When Juan Hernandez took the job, he had never even heard of the company.
It was 2015. A friend who welded there told him they were hiring, and Juan, an experienced welder himself, figured it was just another contract gig. The pay was about twenty-eight dollars an hour. The company was called SpaceX.
When they brought him on full-time, they handed him something his previous jobs never had: a stake in the business. Roughly ten thousand dollars' worth of company stock. He shrugged at it. "It wasn't a big deal," he said. "I didn't know anything about it then."
For the next decade, he built rockets with his hands, welding the structures that hoisted them onto the launch pad, working his way up to supervisor. And every so often, he'd add a little more stock. He held on, year after year, while a scrappy space startup quietly became one of the most valuable companies on Earth.
Then, in 2026, SpaceX went public.
Juan checked his shares. Around six and a half thousand of them. Their value: over one million dollars.
A welder on twenty-eight dollars an hour, a millionaire on paper overnight, and he wasn't alone. The listing reportedly minted thousands of everyday SpaceX workers, welders, technicians, cafeteria staff, into millionaires the same day.
The guy who'd never heard of the company held on longer than almost anyone would đź’›
