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A planned economy will always do worse than a free one. God bless the invisible hand

How did the invisible hand cause Elon Musk to exist?

I'm not saying we wouldn't have had reusable rockets and ubiquitous internet access without him; just that it probably would not have happened in my lifetime.

Remains to be seen how the German economy evolves and if they are going to pay for it, because other EU countries probably won't.

Do you actually have information about the funding of this project or just joining the EU-org-bad crowd? ESA has a decent budget + optional projects. Those are agreed fairly early too https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/Funding

Citations welcome.

that’s not really how the EU works

Europallettes, yea