“…you can keep your plan.” Wait, what?
What kind of fools really believed him when he said this? Was he so stupid as to believe it himself, or was he just lying? And which is worse?
More fodder for campaign ads in the fall.
“…you can keep your plan.” Wait, what?
What kind of fools really believed him when he said this? Was he so stupid as to believe it himself, or was he just lying? And which is worse?
More fodder for campaign ads in the fall.
…in one anecdote.
What kind of economic idiot is he? A blithering one.
Elon is one of those rare people who started with a small fortune in space and turned it into a larger one. Historically, it’s been the opposite for most attempts. I guess they’ll have to update this list now.
A new book is coming out on the subject. It’s a little out of my price range, but it looks interesting.
A very good overview of the current state of affairs by Stewart Money over at The Space Review. It’s a mess, and it’s not going to change until we start to take more COTS-like approaches throughout, not just for NASA but DoD as well.
You’re probably incapable of learning:
When American cities embraced the high cost, high regulation statist model two generations or so ago, they were often the richest and most dynamic places in the country. Increasingly “progressive” policies, with higher wages for unionized teachers, bigger bureaucracies enforcing tighter regulations, more “planning” by qualified technocrats and more government services and benefits to improve the quality of residents’ lives were supposed to take the American city into a new golden age.
It’s hard to think of many social experiments that have more disastrously failed. Now many of these once flourishing cities are hollowed out shells, while around them suburbs and increasingly exurbs flourish away from the deadening influence of urbanist politics. None of this affects the hold of progressive and urbanist ideology on true believers; if anything, they believe even more passionately in the cause. Obviously the problem is that we haven’t spent enough on enough tenured teachers, haven’t written enough new regulations and established enough new bureaus to enforce them, haven’t published enough white papers by enough credentialed planners, haven’t extracted enough taxes and provided enough services. If we could just tax the suburbs and exurbs more heavily and spend more of the money in the cities, all would be well.
It’s a classic case of the definition of insanity.
[Noon update]
No, it’s not just Detroit.
Clearing up some misconceptions among the enthusiasts. Spaceflight isn’t “safe.” It’s also not “unsafe.” That any activity is either of those things in any absolute sense is a myth. It is all relative.
I’m assuming that Ed Wright wrote this, but it’s not clear.
Some free-market lessons. It is key that we decouple health insurance from employment. It has really screwed things up for decades. If there’s going to be a tax deduction for it, it should go to the individual, not the employer.
Seem to be entirely self afflicted. As a brilliant commenter notes, ironically, they failed to have a backup plan.
I’m glad I’m not a stockholder, and I’m unlikely to be until they change out their idiotic management.
The high cost of “clean” energy.
That’s what happens when you have scientific and economic illiterates making decisions about how to spend other peoples’ money.