This is genuinely one of the most vile and disgusting things I've read on this thread so far. Cheering on the hypothetical destruction of people's hard work to create a significant engineering and technological milestone is so fundamentally antithetical to the hacker ethos that I can't believe you found it acceptable to put that into writing in such a crass manner.
> Imagine what SpaceX could have produced for $21b
Considering the vast majority of SpaceX's technical achievements are built on the back of the American taxpayer (through use of public-domain NASA documentation and blueprints as well as government contracts), likely not much. As I've said elsewhere in this thread, SpaceX's strengths lie in their crack team of software engineers for which you can credit their advances in reusability, not necessarily their hardware.
It's extremely tiresome to see individuals so cynical that their bias against government-funded research and technology manifests in such an ugly way, especially against the backdrop of such a magnificent success story despite overwhelming odds. Good night.