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The primary purpose of NASA is to get NASA and its contractors hired and paid, not to explore space

You're joking, right?

So you're saying that the purpose of everything is to make money, not to make what those enterprises were built to do in the first place?

No wonder capitalism is the root of almost all our evils nowadays.. I feel really sorry for you.



Is this not a reasonable suggestion? Any organisation which is unable to ensure its financial survival will by definition go extinct and so be unable to achieve anything else.


There's a huge difference between saying "ensure financial survival" and "their primary purpose is to get paid".

One puts money above everything. The other considers it a mean for a higher purpose.

Can you tell the difference?




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