publicly funded means funded by the people. its not really unreasonable that people demand the economic benefits of investing their money to be spread around a bit.
its not ideal from logistics POV, but it is not what I would take as the prime example of incompetence. its just the government way of doing thinngs.
If the economic benefit summarized as employment, then the goal is wrong. And indeed space conquest oftem just makes our child brains dream, instead of being something useful per itself. So we tout employment and side-effects as a prime benefit of space. Why not create a broken-window factory, it will create more jobs.
[−]TheOtherHobbes · 2026-11-15 Sun 12:34 UTC ·
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A broken-window factory like Microsoft?
Can we stop pretending the private sector isn't a labyrinth of idiocy, opportunism, petty infighting, and inefficiency?
The private sector is very, very bad at thinking strategically in useful terms. Profit is a fool's proxy for progress.
Corporate values have been the single biggest brake on human development since the 1970s. We would be far further ahead on every metric with the kind of smarter strategic management that corporate culture makes unimaginable.
its not ideal from logistics POV, but it is not what I would take as the prime example of incompetence. its just the government way of doing thinngs.
Can we stop pretending the private sector isn't a labyrinth of idiocy, opportunism, petty infighting, and inefficiency?
The private sector is very, very bad at thinking strategically in useful terms. Profit is a fool's proxy for progress.
Corporate values have been the single biggest brake on human development since the 1970s. We would be far further ahead on every metric with the kind of smarter strategic management that corporate culture makes unimaginable.