Civics: “Nationalize Starlink.” Three words, 142K views. And the entire economic history of the 20th century screaming in the room.
Let me explain what would actually happen.
Start in 1920. Ludwig von Mises publishes an essay that will haunt every central planner: without private property, there are no market prices. Without prices, there is no way to calculate. A bureaucrat cannot know whether a ton of steel is more useful in a satellite or in a bridge. He guesses. He guesses wrong. And nobody pays when he’s wrong.
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Nationalizing Starlink means handing over what works to those who failed with the shuttle
$54,500 per kilo with the shuttle, $2,700 with Falcon 9, figures from NASA itself
When the state can no longer compete, it confiscates
