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Call me a socialist but we had scientific and engineering breakthroughs without hyper capitalism. If NASA had the budget of the 1960s today we would be way ahe
by leifg 5y ago
Call me a socialist but we had scientific and engineering breakthroughs without hyper capitalism.
If NASA had the budget of the 1960s today we would be way ahead of what Space X is doing now.
And yeah, even without that I’d trade Space X for more global equality in a second.
- hooande 5y agoSpace X is a bad, fan boy example. my life is greatly improved by the internet, by ubiquitous electricity, satellite communications, etc. the current form of many of these things was driven by a type of capitalism that is inseparable from inequality
- leifg 5y agoThe internet, the electric grid and satellite communications are all great examples for state sponsored endeavors…
- nielsole 5y agoNASA probably was perceived to show the superiority of the capitalist system over socialism in the 60ies though.
- jacquesm 5y agoThat's exactly why it got its budget in the first place: to show up the Russians (who had shown up the Americans by launching first 'Sputnik' and then Gagarin), not necessarily to do something useful in space. But no matter how they got their budget, I'm happy they did.