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re: I don't believe that
McFly — (archived)

...loathsome money-grubbers would be building houses out of sticks and sod if it weren't for government-enforced building codes; your home would be a fire-trap, as would everyone else's.

This ignores the fact that a company building fire-traps would create a marvelous opportunity for another company to start building safer homes. Then the buyers could decide where they wanted to spend their money.

Sure, some measure of regulation can be a healthy thing, but too much can be like a pillow held over the face of creativity.

I think the concept of goal-driven government incentives to help impel private space ventures is a great idea. However, I'm not sure NASA is the body to be handing out the dough--not in its current form, anyway. Perhaps if their compensation were in some way related to the goals in question. Crudely put, their fortunes (as it were) would be tied, at least in part, to the performance of the grantees.

Why not? My overall compensation is related to the performance of the company I work for, and moreover to the department I work in. Why not theirs?

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