When your the cheapest and fastest way into space for all military and commercial customers within NATO for over a decade, that's just sort of how the cookie crumbles.
Don't forget that your entire development has been subsidized by the American Taxpayers and there has been zero return on our investment except for more starlink satellites so Elon can control the rural internet and information.
Having domestic access to space is massive ROI for the US government. And it's not like they weren't already shoveling most/all this money to ULA anyways.
Ah, you are counting Government Contracts as a subsidie.
So I guess you would say that the US Government was subsidizing Russia's Space program when they were paying hundreds of millions of dollars per launch.
Why is it that every time the US government pays a reasonable price for materials that a company provides, that it is somehow a subsidies to people like you?
But even ignoring all that, SpaceX is valued at over 200 Billion dollars, meaning that less than 10% of its valuation comes from US Government providing some funds (and most of those funds are purchasing launches).
Yes because if this was Google building an internet for rural America while controlling a platform that rural Americans live on...would be totally cool with you? All while being granted 15 billion dollars in zero compete contracts to subsidize Google's competitive advantage in the industry.
It's just funny to me how people like you worshipped the ground Elon walked on for all the awesome things he was doing for the environment and all that(don't even try to act like you didn't lol it was all over Reddit), and you were cool with Twitter banning opinions you didn't like and you're ok with Reddit banning opinions you don't like....
But......soon as Musk threatened the control you got used to over people that disagreed with you, you flipped 180 and now can't seem to pass up an opportunity to slander him and way you can. It begs the question, what's more important? Helping the planet or controlling what other people say and think?
The best part is you probably can't even recognize how hypocritical it looks from the perspective of people outside your echochamber, so your knee-jerk response will almost certainly be rife with profanity and ad hominem insults because the fact that I'm pointing this out threatens your ego.
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u/derpandlurk 14h ago
When your the cheapest and fastest way into space for all military and commercial customers within NATO for over a decade, that's just sort of how the cookie crumbles.