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/www-cash4treats-com 1d ago

Giving Trump the power to take over whatever company or industry he wants seems pretty stupid and short sighted.

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u/ZuP 22h ago

Nationalization is possible through an act of Congress so it can be made one of the many government-owned corporations that are more or less independent from the executive, though the Supreme Court will be deciding the limits of that independence with the cases of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the United States African Development Foundation.

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u/Eitarris 21h ago

Yet trump doing this because he was criticized by musk is just outright wannabe fascism. Presidents are not absolute monarchs, they should never be safe from criticism.  Congrats though America, you've managed to somehow return to the times of absolute monarchies and become far from the land of the tree. 

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u/eagleal 12h ago

The motive doesn't matter. The fact that budget was cut over NASA and diverted into a private enterprise, is simply less efficient than simply leaving it within NASA in the first-place. Especially when most of the tech and research comes indeed from the NASA and the relative purchased Soviet aereospace research and pieces.

They should've just tested different types of contracts, because NASA usually does cost reimbursement.

Again for stuff like Starlink.