Comment by trhway
2 years ago
You obviously never been to a collective farm.
Despite government support to the extent much larger than that for SpaceX collective farms have nothing to show for it.
2 years ago
You obviously never been to a collective farm.
Despite government support to the extent much larger than that for SpaceX collective farms have nothing to show for it.
Maybe because they are farms and not rocket makers
That's not an excuse. In socialist Czechoslovakia, a coop farm produced computers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JZD_Slu%C5%A1ovice#TNS_Compute...
It looks like this system was created out of necessity; there was no viable product for what they needed. Necessity is the mother of innovation after all, and we find this sorts of innovation frequently in non-collectivized entrepreneurships as well. Still, very cool!
Why they are farms and not rocket makers? Because collective.
But there are very successful rocketry collectives! They just typically aren't called "farms".
Things like Friends of Amateur Rocketry have all the characteristics of a collective (including legal status) https://friendsofamateurrocketry.org/
The constraining factor is typically budget (as mentioned up-thread).
By this logic capitalism is the thing holding back capitalist farms from being rocket makers too? Or do you only apply it when you get to use the word "collective"?
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