Translation: "We lied to you all about government ownership of businesses being a bad thing. We're going to keep lying and hope you're too stupid to realize it, dipshit."
I totally agree, but funneling taxpayer money to space exploration makes rich people richer faster than, say, using that money to build homes or feed the hungry.
This means useful idiots are always going to support it over any alternatives.
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Reddit, and any centralization, is intrinsically dangerous to piracy.