it feels terrible when incompetent people take over and start pissing away our money, essentially holding whatever defense concern they managed to monopolize as

it feels terrible when incompetent people take over and start pissing away our money, essentially holding whatever defense concern they managed to monopolize as a hostage. So that part to me is very depressing. My bigger point was that this process is not linear or predictable. Saturn rocket was a miracle that seemingly no market forces could afford to build. Organizations that built that miracle have exhausted and are nowadays essentially welfare. Now, SpaceX and starlink are a private miracle that was hard to imagine just a couple decades ago. Not sure what the moral is here, but somehow we seem to find a way, whether private or public.