The free market of confusion
cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/28593249
[A television shows people starving with the title "NEWS: FAMINE DEVASTATES A GLOBAL SOUTH COUNTRY" and the subtitle "Brought to you by AgriCorp™"]
[orange] That's communism That's why we hate communism so much
[green] But the trade sanctions come from capita…
[A television shows a rocket launch with the title "NEWS: ROCKET LAUNCHED, HUMANS ARE IN SPACE" and the subtitle "Brought to you by tax credits for billionaires"]
[orange] That's capitalism That's why we love capitalism so much
[green] But modern rocketry was pioneered by the soviet…
[A television shows police in a city and a graffiti with the title "14 MILLION CRIMINAL OFFENSES REPORTED IN THE US IN 2024" and the subtitle "This fearmongering is brought to you by Liberty Mutual Justice™"]
[orange] That's anarchism That's why we hate anarchism so much
[green] But the USA is quite literally a capitalis…
[A television shows kids starving in a school cafeteria with the title "SAD FACTS: 1 IN 5 KIDS IN THE USA FACE FOOD INSECURITY (2025)" and the subtitle "SnackCorp™ was here"]
[orange] That's not capitalism It's crony oligarchic neoliberalism
[green] But that's quite literally…
[A television shows a reporter reporting on the end of the world with the title "BREAKING NEWS: MASS COLLAPSE OF SOCIETY AS CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSED BY BILLIONAIRES LEADS TO GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC FAILURE" and the subtitle "PetroCorp™ approves"]
[orange] I knew it! I knew communism would be the end of us all!
[green has no words, is just blasé]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
Full story seems to depend on definition of modern. Liquid propellant rockets are theorized in Russia, first flight in states, first real use in Germany, first in space in USSR.
Yeah it seems like you can’t cleanly attribute rocketry progress to a singular economic system. Even attributing the innovations from the US to capitalism is strange given that until the recent times I think you could argue that most of the innovation was coming from NASA, which is a government run program.
If rocket science was simple, it wouldn't be used as an idiom 😁
I would definitely argue the first one to make a functional, guided, useable rocket for something other than a test.
I think that puts it at Nazi Germany.
This was already posted here an hour earlier. Thats why you are getting downvoted...