Where your money really goes
Where your money really goes
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I think you're confusing "oligarchy" with "authoritarian"... one doesn't necessarily imply or require the other.
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Oligarchy is a heirarchical power structure where a privileged minority holds power over large parts of society. It's a type of authoritarianism
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Lol what a based meme. $249 to lockheed but the $12 triggers the rant.
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They are all evil but one is also loud and obnoxious
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Authoritarianism is when taxes pay for defense and civil space program?
Yeah I get it, out military is bloated, does bad things, and we keep the industrial complex going buy selling weapons to almost anyone who will buy them.
The government paying SpaceX to build rockets is not authoritarianism.
You could attribute any payment, no matter how corrupt, to “national defense and a civil space program.”
The Ukraine war has demonstrated what a military asset Starlink is. You can control drones in real time with no direct line of sight.
*paying SpaceX way less for rocket launches than they would any of their competitors.
SpaceX, Musk or not, has tremendously reduced the cost to launch stuff to LEO. I'd rather give SpaceX $12 than ULA $24 for fewer launches.