Major inventions

[John_James]

@The Bomb19

But the initial costs of the space race would not have been a good business adventure for the private sector. Remember, the private sector have built upon decades of work by governments that would have been in no way profitable (where was the money to be made in launching sputnik or laika? into space).

Without WW2 and the Cold War, computer and other technologies would have been set back decades. Without that big waste of taxpayer money at CERN we wouldn’t have had the internet. The biggest demand for technological demand is the military and science. So, tell me, with no Cold War, with no funding of the space race or supercolliders, how would the market have done things more efficiently? Fact is it wouldnt.

I’m going to restate the most important part of what I said, because evidently you missed it. (Even though someone else quoted for you as well)…

You’re basically saying “it’s a good thing a small group of elites used the threat of force to take money from everyone to finance this project that the people didn’t want, because otherwise it wouldn’t have gotten done.”

My question to you is, why does the will of the elite few take precidence over the will of everyone else? Why should everyone be forced to pay for something they clearly (i.e. demonstrably) don’t want? I would be interested to hear your moral justification for this.