> We don’t need the government to kickstart space exploration anymore. Oh, the government still funds space exploration. That’s still where most of the money c

> We don’t need the government to kickstart space exploration anymore. Oh, the government still funds space exploration. That’s still where most of the money comes from. It’s just, the government (and by extension, we the people) no longer owns the results of that funding. It’s instead owned by a handful of billionaires that are attempting to own everything.