Comment by remarkEon
4 days ago
This is a policy decision insofar as the policy isn’t to liquidate entire groups of people over class and status resentment. “Just redistribute the wealth bro, it’ll work this time bro I swear let’s just do a redistribution”.
> “Just redistribute the wealth bro, it’ll work this time bro I swear let’s just do a redistribution”.
Bro, have you considered that NASA, the topic of this submission, is government redistribution of wealth via taxes?
Yeah, the difference is that NASA is cool, and lighting money on fire for utopian and inevitably corrupt money transfer schemes is not.
Hope that helps.
NASA may be cool, but the main reason SpaceX was able to undercut old launch providers was all the I Can't Believe It's Not Corruption of pork barrel spending by those old launch providers.
So SpaceX made space cheaper, was good value for the US taxpayer, and was also a money transfer scheme from the government to him. (Worse with Tesla, but this isn't about Musk just SpaceX).
That said, now there's questions about if Musk is corrupt with all those US government ties that result in suspicious direct pressure on non-US governments, including with Starlink which even if theoretically separate to SpaceX is obviously functionally inseparable at present.
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> Hope that helps.
It doesn't.
I think that helping the less fortunate is cool, and launching people to the Moon is lighting money on fire for utopian and inevitably corrupt money transfer schemes.
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> “Just redistribute the wealth bro, it’ll work this time bro I swear let’s just do a redistribution
Literally 100% of taxes work like this, it happens every monthly paycheck.