• Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Whenever people tout Space X as an exemplar of private efficiency my eyebrow twitches.

    They wouldn’t exist if not for the billions spent through public funding of R&D at NASA.

    Space X also can take risks governments can’t. Imagine if NASA blew up rockets as often as Space X? The Republicans would gut their funding even more then they already have.

    • problematicPanther@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      taking risks is exactly why they’re more efficient. i wish the public sector could take as many risks without it turning into political circus, but that would never happen.