Honest question. Is capitalism preventing space travel? There

capitalism or no humanity is never going to leave planet Earth

Deal with it

A human society with no capitalism probably wouldn't have made it to electricity, let alone space travel.

If you mean "nobody wants to fund that shit" you would be correct, but this is inherent in every economic system, not just capitalism. It's capitalism that's given the US government a three trillion dollar a year budget to spend.

>>2143567
OP here, not totally against capitalism but i notice a trend of current capitalists not wanting to take risks like they did before.
In the early industrial days and before that when explorers were discovering the world there was huge risk.
no ones willing to risk it all anymore in the name of progress.
Clean and Solar energies would benefit a lot of things and even make profits for investors but since it wouldnt happen in the holders life time "its not worth it"

Its sad really.

I guess you could call it crony capitalism or something.

Dude the only thing preventing space travel and dragging humanity down is welfare that keep leeches alive.

I think capitalism will spur space travel through private companies like spacex similarly to post ww1 aviation.

>>2143591
Well, it costs more to do new things now, we did all the cheap stuff.

You still have governments shelling out tens of billions of dollars for hadron colliders and space shuttles.

Hell, the ISS alone was a twelve figure price tag.

You'd be correct that private corporations don't generally undertake large investments for an uncertain payoff, but that's precisely why the public sector exists.

It's democracy, not capitalism.

The Europeans who went out colonizing did so because they didn't need the people's agreement. Also, it wasn't that big of a risk.

The only reason the Space Race was even big in the first place was because of a dick waving conquest involving weapons development. Nobody gave a shit about Space.

The truth of the matter is that people will either vote for tax cuts or for taxes to be spent on them. They don't care about space

>>2143625
I thought most early colonialism was pretty much private ventures with government subsidies - then they really jumped on board once the profits became apparent.