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What part of funded and operated by the US GOV is hard to understand?

As if SpaceX is not?

And where does it say this was SpaceX decision? Seems highly unlikely to me.

Starshield is litteraly a US gov project which this is about. Not the public network at all. The title is clickbait honestly.

Musk has been pretty vocal. Past controversy was literally the government asking him to do something illegal. Starshield is starlink for the US military. I highly doubt this controversy is anything other than SpaceX doing what the US gov tells them.

The guy who built it should not be running it because it is too important?

You really think they do something other than what the US gov tells them?

The more intelligent someone is, can just lead to more creative ways to go crazy.

Corruption is objectively negative. The east indian company not generating wealth is objectively wrong. The roman and british empires were not the same and the roman one required way more war to maintain.

Sure but if the results have practical implications then the validity will be self evident. If they do not, not much of consequence has been lost.

Interesting that math gets so much attention, when actual advances to material science, biology and chemistry have much higher ramifications and economic benefits. I assume progress there is kept under wraps until they can capture the economic benefits. If they can do that, then the insane valuations may actually be valid.

1. War costs wealth not empires by themselves. GB created an empire, because their technological and intelligence advantage was so high, the amount of war needed to get it was small. By intelligence I mean the conquering of India by exploiting its cast system. The colonies were simply civilizations that were out of date and had a huge informational disadvantage. WW2 changed that as it was so expensive it bankrupted everyone but the US.

> Same reason for why Rome stopped expanding and had so many financial problems. The check on empire is always bankruptcy.

The down fall of every empire is hubris and corruption. It is what is bankrupting the US and what bankrupted the Romans. They stopped having kids, spent their time partying and tried to make up for it by importing and relying on barbarians.

2. Yes. But the state did not recognize the trap or simply did not care because it was not interested. I'm not exactly a historian, but Spain was somewhat known for having an inbred idiotic monarchy.

3. All of which are a result of an educated, effective elite and bureaucracy.

Competent leadership is the difference between El Salvador now and 10 years ago. It is the difference between Singapore and Malaysia. Both countries are a result of pure force of will of competent leadership.

Missing the forest for the trees. Spain had extreme wealth from colonies, but wasted it on nothing but debauchery.

Britain had wealth from colonies and maintained an empire with very few people and no computers. The British elites were on an entirely different level to the spanish ones, which is the point of the article. Great Britain had an extremely capable and educated bureaucracy that maintained an empire and was first to industrialize as a result.

Yes the AI investment bond market is so large it is literally competing with the government.

Farage was debanked. So was Trump and Melania, AfD politicians, Le Penn in france.

Outside the US, NATO countries have very little power projection capabilities. A bit of france, a bit of UK and then nothing.