@Mrw @chrisisgr8 There's that, but not really. The government can and does literally print money and the extent to which that drives inflation is over-stated. The government also already does this via the DoD, but the DoD gets the same perrenial AI and surveillance panopticon fetishes that silicon valley does.
@Matt5sean3 @chrisisgr8 That’s a really great point!
Thinking about that, it’s probably because a dollar spent on the space program doesn’t eventually enrich the ruling class.
Whereas a dollar spent by the DOD, $.70 of that eventually winds up in the pocket of the ruling class.
Then they give Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell $.10 of that dollar as a “campaign donation”, and the cycle repeats.