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Isn't this the most ideal scenario? This can only benefit humanity, spin up new advanced reusable rocket system for EU.

• nabla9 6y ago
  Strategic industries are never left to markets. Each big geopolitical power has their own. Consider chip manufacturing. Why just not let TSMC and Samsung do their thing? Why the US government intervenes and tries to skew the markets.
  • Lio 6y ago
    Probably for the same reason that the Taiwanese government recruited Morris Chang to start TSMC and strategically skew markets towards Taiwan.
    • nabla9 6y ago
      Yes. Taiwan had very purposeful government strategy. First import substitution, then export expansion. Taiwanese industrial policy was to concentrate support for export expansion into two industries, petrochemical industry and electronics industry. First there was these plastic "made in Taiwan" exports. Then came electronics.
  • thecleaner 6y ago
    Because the US government understands this no matter how much people think individuals are better and all that rubbish. The model of operation in the united States has consistently been to crop up innovative businesses around strategic industries. SpaceX would not be this successful without the billions NASA poured into it repeatedly.
    • mrDmrTmrJ 6y ago
      E pluribus unum!
  • rsynnott 6y ago
    If there were, say, ten top-end fab companies, I don’t think anyone would be worried. Today, there are 1.5. That’s obviously a problem.