SpaceX shows the natural boom, decay to a rut, bust out of rut cycle that happens in every industry. Strong independent government institutions make sure that the growth phase when that bust out of rut phase happens stays (relatively) positive for society and free of corruption.
I personally define a corporation as 'evil' when they try to change the regulatory framework to be in their favor since they cross the line from 'playing by the rules defined by society' to 'making up the rules instead of society making them up'. In a democracy it is important that society makes the rules to give the average person a chance to have their priorities listened to. Now that SpaceX is in politics they are an evil company because they aren't beholden to society. Musk will do whatever he thinks is valuable and there are no stops on him. I don't care how amazing the tech SpaceX comes up with, the danger posed by Musk and SpaceX are not even remotely worth it anymore.
Less than half of voters voted for this. Trump didn't even get a majority of voters to agree with him.
Harris didn't either, and by a slightly worse margin.
I don't think we can make any statements about what the public wants, just based on electoral stats. And beyond that, in a more general sense, if you think that every voter actually knows all the nuance (or even the broad strokes, sometimes) of what their chosen candidate wants to do, well... I've got some news for you.
So? Most of those went in blind because of the decades of brainwashing from private media wanting to make a quick buck. Hard to call it democracy when it's missing the actual democrats.
We know better than that. People must be educated in critical thinking. Must be equipped with high quality information sources. And must be shown by example that working things out and building together is possible.
Did we do that? Us, elites? Or did we exploit their lack of education in order to enrich ourselves? Well, apparently we reap what we sow. They no longer care about democracy. Only anger.
SpaceX has shown that certain particular projects can be done better and cheaper via private investment and private enterprise.
SpaceX did not show that a private company can (or would even want to try to) tackle a multi-billion dollar space observatory platform that takes 15+ years to build, and may not be able to provide much in the way of commercial return on investment.
SpaceX shows the natural boom, decay to a rut, bust out of rut cycle that happens in every industry. Strong independent government institutions make sure that the growth phase when that bust out of rut phase happens stays (relatively) positive for society and free of corruption.
I personally define a corporation as 'evil' when they try to change the regulatory framework to be in their favor since they cross the line from 'playing by the rules defined by society' to 'making up the rules instead of society making them up'. In a democracy it is important that society makes the rules to give the average person a chance to have their priorities listened to. Now that SpaceX is in politics they are an evil company because they aren't beholden to society. Musk will do whatever he thinks is valuable and there are no stops on him. I don't care how amazing the tech SpaceX comes up with, the danger posed by Musk and SpaceX are not even remotely worth it anymore.
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Less than half of voters voted for this. Trump didn't even get a majority of voters to agree with him.
Harris didn't either, and by a slightly worse margin.
I don't think we can make any statements about what the public wants, just based on electoral stats. And beyond that, in a more general sense, if you think that every voter actually knows all the nuance (or even the broad strokes, sometimes) of what their chosen candidate wants to do, well... I've got some news for you.
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So? Most of those went in blind because of the decades of brainwashing from private media wanting to make a quick buck. Hard to call it democracy when it's missing the actual democrats.
We know better than that. People must be educated in critical thinking. Must be equipped with high quality information sources. And must be shown by example that working things out and building together is possible.
Did we do that? Us, elites? Or did we exploit their lack of education in order to enrich ourselves? Well, apparently we reap what we sow. They no longer care about democracy. Only anger.
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People did not vote for this.
Trump literally distanced himself the entire election cycle from Project 2025.
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SpaceX has shown that certain particular projects can be done better and cheaper via private investment and private enterprise.
SpaceX did not show that a private company can (or would even want to try to) tackle a multi-billion dollar space observatory platform that takes 15+ years to build, and may not be able to provide much in the way of commercial return on investment.