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0 pointsbmitc2mo ago0 comments

Government subsidized purchase of a private company. Fantastic. All funded by the taxpayer to send rockets to a dead planet and to burn up all the energy on our alive but suffering planet.

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NetMageSCW2mo ago· 1 in thread

Point to any government subsidies for SpaceX - or do you think your salary is a subsidy and everything you do at work is worthless to your employer?

SpaceX has paid for contracts to deliver services to the government and those services have saved the government billions of dollars compared to the alternative.

bmitcOP2mo ago

You're claiming that SpaceX has not received governmnent subsidies, grants, and contracts?

> those services have saved the government billions of dollars compared to the alternative

Source? All I can find is some guy saying it.

And it doesn't really matter what they've saved. It doesn't excuse conflicts of interest.

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