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I mostly agree, but have a quibble: > That is, of course, the only reliable way to get yourself into a footing that permits innovation past the status quo. Th
by lantry 2y ago
I mostly agree, but have a quibble:
> That is, of course, the only reliable way to get yourself into a footing that permits innovation past the status quo.
The space race was a very govt driven thing, and there was a ton of innovation. Govt also funds (funded?) a lot of basic science. "innovation" can happen outside the free market, and might happen more "reliably" when there's no interfering profit motive
- quacked 2y agoI know what you mean, and I agree that innovation can and does happen without a profit motive. In the context of the paragraph, I was talking more about the cultural and decision-making environment within SpaceX and Blue; they're a lot closer to (and in many ways even freer than) the "wild west" days of old NASA, as opposed to the NASA of today, where hiring/firing/structuring/contracting are all under endless heaps of red tape that make it extremely difficult to get anything useful done. (For context, I work for a NASA contractor, initially on site at JSC within the ISS program and now remotely for the Artemis program.)