moda0306 wrote:
Jeezus MG... Death Grip monopoly? Does it piss you off that bad that it was government that figured out how to put a man on the moon? Has the private sector been so oppressed against getting to space?
It doesn't piss me off. I just perceive a tragic farce to society of continuing suboptimal outcomes. If Congress had not allowed NASA to monopolize the space industry and outlawed private space travel until quite recently, we'd surely have colonized Mars and probably beyond by now! What gave those Congressional MFers the right to do that other than they just could? Did we hold a Citizen's Referendum to decide the issue? The supression may not have been at the infamous heights of the FDA or IRS, but it still occurred. Can you honestly say the pace of NASA's innovation since 1962 has been in any way comparable to the exponetial growth of the PC/tech industry? NASA isn't bringing Star Trek-style technology into fruitition, the free market is.
Nothing in this world works better than war, greed, envy and competition for producing technological innovation and moving society into the future. Central planning and government bureaucracies just do not operate on this "profit motive"
dynanism. Its a whole entirely different, alien ecosystem culture of
statism where satisfying external output needs in a win-win situation for all parties is not even remotely the driving force.** No amount of progressivism, liberalism, idealism or wishful thinking will change this real-world fact. The sooner we recognize that voluntary solutions provide superior outcomes to society, the faster we'll stop clinging to the "government" delusion that might makes right.
** I am also sympathetic to the argument that corporations -- even private -- are the breeding grounds of socialism. They are certainly not free market hierarchericies internally, but utilize the same top down, command and conquer perversion that government festers upon general society.
To paraphrase Mittens, "government doesn't create jobs". People masquerading as "government" can only expropriate free minds and free labors by using the "printing press" and "taxes". We all know this to be true, for MMR says so!