Interesting article but not too thorough. Here is more about that contractor:

https://www.hagerty.com/media/great-reads/how-darryl-cuttell...

Why would a contractor continue working for two years racking up a $136M dollar bill?

And SpaceX is suing that firm for 500-800 million for fraud and unauthorized labor markup.

It's so interesting to me that the whole "futurism" concept got co-opted into some sort of political propaganda machine. All the articles are negative hit pieces, they're all reductive, they're almost all political in nature. I used to go on the futurism subreddit years ago and it's all the same there. You'd think "futurism" would be about .. promoting new technology, ushering in the future, you know .. futurism. Not just another political propaganda outlet.

While workers are rarely paid up front, two week pay interval is pretty common

"Quite a few" while you're the woman from if Google Was A Guy with literally one result against an avalanche.

SpaceX makes plumbers millionaires. It's the employer of dreams

Its well known X did not pay their huge AWS bill. I would ask for cash first...