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[–] 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 child)

This analogy falls apart in several ways. The majority of all funding for SpaceX comes from the government. This isn't like a paper company that has massive contracts outside of the government. Furthermore a paper company is a dime a dozen and probably not a national security issue like the sole provider of needed launches.

Governments would probably never need to take over a mundane company like a paper producer, but they most certainly would need to take over a critical supplier of national security needed services because it is run by a space Nazi.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago*

    Doesn't really matter if the government is the main source that gets it off the ground.

    Maybe a upstart paper company was able to snag a contract and they could undercut existing companies because they found an abandoned mill that they got for pennies on the dollar.

    National security is definitely an issue, but again nothing to do with how it was built. Thats entirely outside how something is funded.

    Edit: just to clarify the majority of all early funding. Today its starlink, government money isnt the main thing now.

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