NASA was created after the US got spooked by Sputnik and that's the only instance I can think of off hand, but that was in the 1960s where the public had expectations for the state to do things. The state now just throws money at cops and military because the rest of it has been hollowed out.
I think we could see the US crap out some shitty half-privatized monstrosity of a program headed by various fail-sons and fail-daughters of the ruling class, but mostly we'll probably see the ruling class pump funding into the CIA and other spy orgs to try to sabotage it while, as you said, throwing money at cops to suppress people at home.
That sounds more like it. Some kind of public facing front for scientific development led by Howard Schultz's kids or something but it just becomes a pointless non-profit where they scam money around for 5 years and then dissolve quietly after accomplishing nothing.
NASA was created after the US got spooked by Sputnik and that's the only instance I can think of off hand, but that was in the 1960s where the public had expectations for the state to do things. The state now just throws money at cops and military because the rest of it has been hollowed out.
I think we could see the US crap out some shitty half-privatized monstrosity of a program headed by various fail-sons and fail-daughters of the ruling class, but mostly we'll probably see the ruling class pump funding into the CIA and other spy orgs to try to sabotage it while, as you said, throwing money at cops to suppress people at home.
That sounds more like it. Some kind of public facing front for scientific development led by Howard Schultz's kids or something but it just becomes a pointless non-profit where they scam money around for 5 years and then dissolve quietly after accomplishing nothing.