To be fair here... The old guard still aren't working on reuse even after SpaceX not only championed it but actually succeeded and proved reliability.

The old launch providers are still just throwing their shit away and still cost billions of dollars for launches.

The Commercial Resupply Service and Commercial Crew Programs have also achieved better standards than NASA had when they started them, and at much cheaper cost than the previous solutions.

Privatisation isn't inherently bad, and importantly, the money is still being handled through NASA for oversight.

What do you value higher - that one company's profits or the public? Why are you so selfish? Why can't you just be happy that that one company gets to hold the entire population hostage over the necessary good or service that they can then monopolise? It's so much easier to squeeze the poor for all they own when their very survival depends on the things you can hand out or hold back at a whim. Something something the free market will probably prevent abuse or something, so it's perfectly okay.

They're only able to do it because they've received trillions of dollars from the federal government.

They should nationalize SpaceX before they ever let someone like Musk get the security clearance needed to be in that position.

SpaceX is wasting government money, they have almost spent all of the money they were given to land people on the moon, on building a rocket that can't do basic stuff.

That is not awesome.

The vast majority of starlink are launched on their own flights.

They get a few freebies here and there but it's not the defining factor of their success.

The success is their reusable rockets and turning satellites into a smaller mass manufactured item amd getting economies of scale, not a giant super expensive item.

Edit: also they made reusable rockets then had to figure out a use for them as there wasn't enough global launch demand. They made their own demand. Then they used their own flights to test riskier things like the rockets with the most launches to fine tune the system without risking customer payloads.

Edit: Also for reference launch masses and dish costs

• Hughesnet JUPITER 3 (EchoStar XXIV) has a launch mass of 9200kg. ($445 million)
• Starlink V1 is 260kg (200k USD)
• Starlink V2 Mini (current) 740kg (800k USD)
• Starlink V2 (future satellites for starship) 1250kg (??? USD)

And obviously the Jupiter 3 will stay up there forever so they can recoup costs if starlink doesn't kill them, but thats a lot higher up front cost and they aren't making a lot of them so they don't get efficiencies of scale. Instead they're made with very custom stuff meant to last forever which costs big $$$.