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Socialism will always be playing catch-up to free markets. See the space race.
by macinjosh 5y ago
Socialism will always be playing catch-up to free markets. See the space race.
- lexs 5y agoWasn't the USSR first in space? First ICBM , first artificial satellite, first man in space etc?
- moogly 5y agoThey had all the firsts expect for the last one, which someone decided was the only one that counted.
- sudosysgen 5y agoAlso first interplanetary landing and first space station. To this day the cheapest and most effective way to send humans to LEO is still Soviet.
- dang 5y agoPlease don't take HN threads into generic ideological flamewar. It's tedious, nasty, and the last thing we want here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html