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There is a name for the third position where government works together to guide industry without centralizing everything, but it's gone out of vogue and is gros
by core-questions 7y ago
There is a name for the third position where government works together to guide industry without centralizing everything, but it's gone out of vogue and is grossly mischaracterized most of the time by folks that don't understand the intention.
- pbourke 7y agoThis is the reason why the US made so many advances in aerospace, computing and networks during the midcentury. Not to mention the basic research that is funded (insanely cheaply) by the grant-making apparatus of the NIH, NSF, DOD, etc.
- nickff 7y agoThe problem with most government programs are not their stated intentions, it's that their actual results aren't very good or cost-effective.
- throwanem 7y agoAs opposed, of course, to the awe-inspiring efficiency of the status quo circa the Gilded Age - or today.
- nickff 7y agoWell, SpaceX seems to be developing rockets at 3x the speed and 5x lower cost than NASA, so I would say that there are some examples of 'awe-inspiring efficiency'.
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- ssivark 7y agoCherry-picking much?
- throwanem 7y agoHey, if the strongest argument he's got is to point to something that at best solves no social problems and arguably somewhat exacerbates at least a couple, that's pretty telling in its own right, you know?
- nickff 7y agoWell on the corporate side, there's a spectrum from SpaceX to Theranos. On the government side there's a spectrum from Switzerland to North Korea... I'll admit there are many good and bad examples of both, but I think the average company does more good than the average government.
- pbourke 7y agoYou have provided an example of the above approach: > There is a name for the third position where government works together to guide industry without centralizing everything SpaceX's customer is NASA.
- nickff 7y agoOne of SpaceX's customers is NASA; SpaceX launches satellites for many government and corporate clients.[1] NASA and the USAF have definitely been good customers for them, but SpaceX was started in 2002, with no government seed funding, and it didn't receive any government money for ~5 years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...