has never jibed with what's actually done. If it impacts the public... for example, utilities, etc., or if it impacts an individual directly such as policing, incarceration, etc., I don't think ANY of that should be owned or paid for by private corporations. Now, in this day and age, we've added a new one... private corporate space "exploration"... except the private sector is not out there for exploration, they're out there for more profits - no matter how they could cause harm in 2nd or 3rd degree effects to the world. I'm 70 years old, and I thought I've seen all the corners that private corps cut to save money in all kinds of ways. It was bad enough when they monkey around with our utilities prices to increase shareholder profit, as well as the CEO stratospheric payouts. But when they start impacting humans directly - such as CoreCivic or other for-profit prisons, you end up with bad guards who harm inmates, poor food priced sky high to the government paying the private corp's costs, and people dead with no accountability. And now we're "trusting" them to spend what's necessary and right to send people into space? I don't trust them to cut corners. I don't trust them to put astronauts' lives at top priority, no more than I trust the guards to put inmates lives at priority. I know the space thing will be promoted by some, and if it were a corp we could trust, that would be one thing. But when has there been a corp that exists for the public good and not for profits first? That's what scares me -- in prison or in space, or in what we're paying for utility and medical costs. We're just asking for problems and more death, all the way around, IMO. Which, I assure you, is mine... and probably not a popular opinion.
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