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It is if you don't get the road you paid for.
At that point the problem then isn't "SpaceX is investing in Grok AI", it's "SpaceX is violating its contract with NASA by not doing the work it's been paid to do."
That would indeed be a problem, if true. But it's a completely different problem.
But it is corruption, especially if there are no consequences for it.
Quite possibly. Not all breaches of contract are a result of corruption, but some could be, sure.
But that's not my point. My point is that this isn't relevant to SpaceX investing its money in some other company. It's SpaceX money, not "government" money. They can waste it on stupid hitlerbots if they want to.
Is it though? I can't be arsed to look it up right now, but I can't imagine they're just being given all that taxpayer money without there being reams of paperwork dictating how they spend it. And if they are, then that's pretty corrupt as well.
Who am I kidding? Of course I can imagine that with the way things are being run over there these days.
Govt pays baker for a cake. Baker delivers cake. Baker can spend whatever's left on whatever stupid thing they want.
Space X has been supplying the launches contracted.
I think this claim might apply to Boeing, but SpaceX is very good at actually accomplishing things. There's a reason it's the world's #1 launch provider.
And it's not even close. They put up more mass to orbit than every other entity combined.