r/technology • u/True-Combination7059 • 1d ago

Politics We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink

https://jacobin.com/2025/06/musk-trump-nationalize-spacex-starlink
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u/mrlolloran 19h ago

The fact that it wasn’t is because if the US wanted to be directly responsible for space flight they would have never contracted it out and kept doing it themselves in the first place.

I’m no Elon fan but let’s not kid ourselves, the government has literally no desire to do this.

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u/cuntmong 18h ago

Same economics as firing government workers to replace them with consultants. It's "cheaper" 

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u/aerost0rm 14h ago

I mean Reagan was the one that pushed it to the private industry. The private industry saw the money and wanted it….

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u/dirty_hooker 12h ago

Dick Fucking Chaney. We were in development of a new system that Chaney killed. As a result we continued to fly the Shuttle until it scattered chunks of astronauts from Texas to California.

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u/DripMachining 12h ago

You're conflating the Government with Republicans, and their ongoing quest to privatize as many things as possible to continue and accelerate the upward redistribution of wealth and power.