>>12935031>>12935038its amazing how much using the exact same amount of money but in an organized way can yield much better results.
The SHUTTLE+ISS+SLS budget basically amounts to shit so far, none of it resulted in america having good access to space.
Yet if you had taken that same amount of money it would have been more than enough to fund another "exactly as is" apollo program.
The issue is that the money would have had to be used centrally.
Central planning is the real difference. Its really just like healthcare. If you pay 0.01 cents for the chance to use a complex health machine if you need it then its much more profitable for the whole, like you wouldnt have caused 1 billion dollars of wear to machines, but if the machine doesnt exist a private person without the help of a care system doesnt have much choice but paying for it EXCLUSIVELY for him which would make it insanely more expensive.
its all a matter of organization and central planning and a great argument in favour of communism. The ironic side of things is that in current capitalism this case the state is actually the one who promotes senseless disorganized spending made by many private actors (old space) and a private company (spacex) is the one who is providing a centrally planned coherent plan.
Also, during the cold war the us won by being as communistic (centrally planed) as possible, and the USSR tried to fight back by being as capitalistic (distributing power to free agents so that they achieved good results via their interaction) as possible
