Who took ~$5 billion and counting from the government...
I do however notice a general trend of seeing Libertarians on the dole.
- Falcon 1 development was privately funded, but would it have succeeded without DoD/DARPA funding the first three launches of it? [2]
- Falcon 9 development was aided by hundreds of millions of dollars in seed money, not to mention the billions of dollars worth of launch contracts [3]
[1] https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-tech/2021/12/13...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1#Launches
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Conception_and_fundin...
Sure. But the discussion was about "rich people self funding", with him as an example.
I have a couple ideas I would happily self-fund with the state's mid-10 digit assistance.
> I do however notice a general trend of seeing Libertarians on the dole.
If nothing else, it must help with finding the time to write freedom screeds.
More seriously, just about every rich person will tell you all about their bootstraps. I just wish fewer were crass enough to whine so loudly about others getting similar, ah, bootstrap assistance, to theirs.
