TheRealMafoo on 12 April 2009
| SamuelRSmith said: @Mafoo Question: When NASA was formed to beat Russia to the moon... did it receive funding from the Government? |
Of course.
But NASA spent it on contractors in a very capitalistic way. let's say NASA has a pool of 10 contractors, and 10 million dollars to spend. NASA needs the best technology from these people. NASA could either go the socialistic way, and just give each one 1 million, and then say “now build me something cool”, or they could go the Capitalistic way, and say “only 1 of you is going to get the 10 million, and that's the company with the best stuff.”.
Which one yields the best technology, do you think?
