I don't trust the idea of Private companies holding the American taxpayer hostage to put Americans into space.
I get it. You would rather have the government hold the American taxpayer hostage through their poor spending and inefficiencies. Or have foreign governments hold the American taxpayer hostage to put Americans into space. Why rely on a private/public company which the government can have more oversight of than a foreign government which we would have no control of and tenuous input/oversight.
I also don't trust Private companies to put people into space.
Yep. We also shouldnt trust private or publically traded companies to fly planes to carry people into the air. Companies shouldnt operate boats
that should be left to the government! Cars? Nope! The government should be in control of all cars and trucks. You cant trust a taxi driver to take us home
he should be working for the government, not a private company!
NASA has no reason to cut corners to get people into space safely.
A private company has every reason to cut every corner it legally can, and if a accident does happen they can just say " space! "
" Hey listen Shareholders! We might have killed 4 people! But no one else died, and we saved a billion by cutting corners most of the time! Freedom! "
Bad ol private companies care only about the bottom dollar. To them, its, screw safety! and killing people is a-okay if it gets us profit and not into trouble! The government is good! Private is evil! And the people? The people who own companies are all evil. The people who run government are all good and pure. I mean, all that innovation and building of America that was done by private (and publically traded) companies and private citizens
pshh
forget that! All the railroads, buildings, highways, parks, etc
forget that everything was built by private/public companies, not government
that the government merely hired them like they are doing with SpaceX. Nope! We should trust the government and only the government, explicitly. The should run things. They should run all things!
In truth, the private world is what has pushed us ahead as a species. They are the ones who drove the exploration of the world and developed most of the new technologies and systems. Not to say that NASA and the military didnt
they did
.but a lot of the development was done by private companies for the military/NASA/the government. Private/public companies are the backbone of the world. And they are what will move our civilization into space.