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I'd be interested to know which studies? While I agree that Amazon should pay their fair share, I find it hard to believe that there is a general loss of effic
by aeternus 8y ago
I'd be interested to know which studies?
While I agree that Amazon should pay their fair share, I find it hard to believe that there is a general loss of efficiency when privatized.
Companies have strong incentives to reduce costs, whereas government projects often have negative incentives to reduce costs. (Cost-plus contracting and use-it-or-lose-it budgets).
NASA is a great example, that organization made some amazing breakthroughs early on, but has arguably stagnated. It is now being surpassed by private companies due to ballooning bureaucracy and cost-prohibitive mission proposals. Something that many thought impossible.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-exploration-sticker-shock/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-exploration...
- maxxxxx 8y agoI'd agree that NASA is stagnating but without them there would probably be no private companies building rockets right now. They have done a lot of trial and error figuring out how rockets should work and now private companies are commoditizing this knowledge NASA has accumulated. We would know nothing about Mars either without NASA and Musk could not even dream of going there. NASA should go back to working on big leaps instead of being forced into things like the SLS by Congress. But private companies would go nowhere without the public investment through NASA.