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Because America was lagging behind the Soviet Union in space achievements, and the Soviet Union was parading their superior space program to promote Communism.

Because America was lagging behind the Soviet Union in space achievements, and the Soviet Union was parading their superior space program to promote Communism. It's not a generational thing, it's that the Moon landing was a top priority Cold War effort to beat the Soviets and show that Capitalism is the best. This mission in the other hand would be neat but has limited political value. What money were are willing to spend on space will mostly be spent on having a permanent moon base before the Chinese.

rbanffy 2y ago
> and show that Capitalism is the best. Or so it seemed. > will mostly be spent on having a permanent moon base before the Chinese. At least it could be launched from the Moon with a magnetic rail in addition to whatever extra propulsion it could carry onboard.
- hagbard_c 2y ago
  > Or so it seemed The term 'capitalism' is often used as a smear by the adherents of 'opposing' ideologies like socialism and communism so let's agree on a definition using Britannica Money's example [1]: capitalism, economic system, dominant in the Western world since the breakup of feudalism, in which most means of production are privately owned and production is guided and income distributed largely through the operation of markets.. Given this definition and weighing the positives and negatives it still seems to be the best system, something which I do not see changing as long as humans remain in control of society. Do you have any examples which show where another system has been proven to be superior at a large scale? That - scale - is an important factor here since there is a direct relation between the scale of the group and the applicability of economic systems. [1] https://www.britannica.com/money/capitalism https://www.britannica.com/money/capitalism
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  - meowster 2y ago
    > it still seems to be the best system, something which I do not see changing as long as humans remain in control of society. I agree. Humans can be bad, and bad people can participate in markets. Until you get rid of bad people (that's a scary thought on what that would entail), all forms of economic systems can be used for bad things.
  - adrian_b 2y ago
    The problem of capitalism is the instability of "the operation of markets". Especially after 2000, there has been an extreme consolidation in almost all markets, so that they are controlled by quasi-monopolies and the operation of those markets resembles more and more every year with the economies of the former socialist countries. The economies of the former socialist countries were pretty much identical with the end stage of evolution of the capitalist markets, when a true monopoly controls each market. When the dominance of Russia has collapsed after 1990, for about a decade there was a huge hope of improvements that would lead to economies everywhere functioning according to the ideal "free markets" theories. However, to the dismay of those liberated from the Russian influences, the Western countries have evolved since then to resemble more and more the systems that they were formerly criticizing, not only in the monopolistic markets, but also in mass surveillance, whistleblower punishments, great discrepancies between what the politicians say and what they do, politically-controlled Supreme Courts of Justice and so on.
- Klonoar 2y ago
  There may be something better than capitalism, but it surely wasn’t communism as we’ve seen by now.
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rbanffy 2y ago

> and show that Capitalism is the best. Or so it seemed. > will mostly be spent on having a permanent moon base before the Chinese. At least it could be launched from the Moon with a magnetic rail in addition to whatever extra propulsion it could carry onboard.

hagbard_c 2y ago
> Or so it seemed The term 'capitalism' is often used as a smear by the adherents of 'opposing' ideologies like socialism and communism so let's agree on a definition using Britannica Money's example [1]: capitalism, economic system, dominant in the Western world since the breakup of feudalism, in which most means of production are privately owned and production is guided and income distributed largely through the operation of markets.. Given this definition and weighing the positives and negatives it still seems to be the best system, something which I do not see changing as long as humans remain in control of society. Do you have any examples which show where another system has been proven to be superior at a large scale? That - scale - is an important factor here since there is a direct relation between the scale of the group and the applicability of economic systems. [1] https://www.britannica.com/money/capitalism https://www.britannica.com/money/capitalism
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- meowster 2y ago
  > it still seems to be the best system, something which I do not see changing as long as humans remain in control of society. I agree. Humans can be bad, and bad people can participate in markets. Until you get rid of bad people (that's a scary thought on what that would entail), all forms of economic systems can be used for bad things.
- adrian_b 2y ago
  The problem of capitalism is the instability of "the operation of markets". Especially after 2000, there has been an extreme consolidation in almost all markets, so that they are controlled by quasi-monopolies and the operation of those markets resembles more and more every year with the economies of the former socialist countries. The economies of the former socialist countries were pretty much identical with the end stage of evolution of the capitalist markets, when a true monopoly controls each market. When the dominance of Russia has collapsed after 1990, for about a decade there was a huge hope of improvements that would lead to economies everywhere functioning according to the ideal "free markets" theories. However, to the dismay of those liberated from the Russian influences, the Western countries have evolved since then to resemble more and more the systems that they were formerly criticizing, not only in the monopolistic markets, but also in mass surveillance, whistleblower punishments, great discrepancies between what the politicians say and what they do, politically-controlled Supreme Courts of Justice and so on.
Klonoar 2y ago
There may be something better than capitalism, but it surely wasn’t communism as we’ve seen by now.

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