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This "eventually" sounds like it's really "we get progress once we put them through guillotines and claw back all the tech we paid for" The end state of these
by 8note 5y ago
This "eventually" sounds like it's really "we get progress once we put them through guillotines and claw back all the tech we paid for"
The end state of these things is still government provided utilities: space equivalents to roads and busses
The main benefit of billionaires doing this is that republicans love giving as tax money to rich people, so it can actually be funded, and the funding is what really decides whether a thing will be done
- staunch 5y agoCan you point to some examples in history of things going this way? There are relatively few advances that were done purely by governments. Usually progress starts in the government and is then superseded by private industry, or the reverse. There's a reason capitalist-America has led technological progress for 100+ years. The USSR had almost purely governmental funding and their administrators were almost universally terrible at genuine innovation.