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We are not looking to them to fix anything. We are looking to them not existing in the first place, to free up resources for people that actually need them.
by user-the-name 5y ago
We are not looking to them to fix anything.
We are looking to them not existing in the first place, to free up resources for people that actually need them.
- ben_w 5y agoWhat resources would be freed? Take Amazon into government ownership, and the near-zero profits (because they spend roughly everything they make on growth) makes exactly the same for the government as it did in private hands. This isn’t zero-sum, at least not in general. If the US federal government did that with SpaceX would be actively worse, because NASA and American aerospace industries are deliberately spread out over the USA, specifically to give every senator a clear interest in keeping funds high, which means they have absolutely no interest in lowering costs (lower costs mean less money for their state in the short term, even if you can guarantee the follow on effects would double their state’s tax revenue after just three election cycles).