RE: This space for rent: NASA considers ads on spacecraft - good or bad?
September 12, 2018 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2018 at 11:36 am by Anomalocaris.)
I think in microcosm, it appears to be an expedient way for National ASA to get closer to the next potentially worthy goal.
In the macrocosm, it represents another worrisome diminution of the concept that there can be larger and longer term public good greater in overall value to the society than the sum of the value of successful profit seeking by private cooperations and individuals. This is because it further weakens the practical mechanism (public funding) that enable such greater public good to be effectively pursued in defiance of private individual and cooperations’s desire to withhold as much resource as possible from the public good in order to devote it to pursuit of private profit.
In the macrocosm, it represents another worrisome diminution of the concept that there can be larger and longer term public good greater in overall value to the society than the sum of the value of successful profit seeking by private cooperations and individuals. This is because it further weakens the practical mechanism (public funding) that enable such greater public good to be effectively pursued in defiance of private individual and cooperations’s desire to withhold as much resource as possible from the public good in order to devote it to pursuit of private profit.
