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Marketplace competition and non-zero-sumness are not mutually exclusive, at least not if you are a capitalist. The total money spent on spaceflight will be larg
by dandelany 11y ago
Marketplace competition and non-zero-sumness are not mutually exclusive, at least not if you are a capitalist. The total money spent on spaceflight will be larger with both companies in the market than with either one alone, therefore it is not a zero-sum game.
As for acknowledging each others advancements - you don't see Sony or Dell going out of their way to mention Apple, for obvious reasons. This is normal behavior between competitors. I don't see why people are making so much out of Bezos' tweet; it was just a stupid joke.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoMaybe because expectations of friendliness are higher when talking about space industry. It still feels more like few entities working towards the same grand goal than companies competing with each other. The jabs Elon and Bezos are exchanging seemed funny to me at first, but now they seem kind of serious, which makes me uncomfortable. I expected they'll have fun together, not the resentment that seems to be flying between them.