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We do these things, and the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard.
by bregma 5y ago
We do these things, and the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard.
- lmilcin 5y agoNo, there are very few people who actually do this. People collectively do hard things when they are profitable. Profitability here in most broad sense possible. US did not send men to Moon because it was hard. It was done because US was in a race with USSR and winning that race was profitable to US. Having public opinion excited about some goal can be profitable, too. If you don't believe, think about it: why has Apollo program been stopped? Because people got used to it and there was nothing further to prove -- further sanding people to Moon after US has demonstrated it can do it repeatedly was extremely expensive but there were no longer any significant profits from it. So while it was still hard it actually became unprofitable to continue to do so. If it was hard that caused US to send people to Moon, they would not stop sending people, they would be sending more, build base on Moon, etc.