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We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink (jacobin.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

By your logic spaceX should stop taking gov $ then.

Just because something is private doesn't mean they should get public funding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It's not up to SpaceX to stop taking government handouts - it's up to the government to stop giving handouts.

I agree with you - they shouldn't get public funding. IMO anything the government funds they should own instead, but this doesn't mean they should take ownership of the things that they fund - they should instead use that funding to start their own taxpayer owned competitor.

I'm completely against government handouts for private business and NGOs btw.