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It did from the perspective of saving STS jobs.
by Spartan-S63 6y ago
It did from the perspective of saving STS jobs.
- avmich 6y agoBut saving jobs by itself doesn't bring much benefits. Maybe if you're going to use that experience in a soon to come follow-up project... which with NASA could be very much not guaranteed.
- bumby 6y agoBenefits to whom? If you assume it’s to benefit NASA, but I think this statement is meant to speak to benefits to politicians
- pfdietz 6y agoGraft and corruption make sense to politicians. They don't make sense to the country as a whole. Public Choice Theory offers explanations, not justifications.
- bumby 6y agoI’m not necessarily disagreeing, but was taking a less cynical perspective. I was talking about the “self licking ice cream cone” in that politicians will protect their constituents interest whether it makes sense for the country or not.