If the potential of a startup is proportionate to the size times the incompetence of its competitors, the most promising startup of all would be one that competed with national governments. It's not impossible; this is what cryptocurrencies do.
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Ok. That implies that there's all these secret start-ups purporting to replace a wide array of critical functions impacting millions of people, and we somehow are ignorant of their existence. Happy to be proven wrong but color me skeptical.
The fact that you don't know about them doesn't mean they're secret. In fact some are highly visible. SpaceX for example, which has taken over much of what was once a government function.
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Ok. But central to your argument is that NASA, in this example, is massively incompetent. I'm no astrologer but that seems like a wild mischaracterization. I'd also argue that space exploration is but a fraction of what they do.
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It probably is a mischaracterization, but it's yours, not mine. Federal agencies, however competent, do not act alone. Big budget projects inevitably involve Congress as well, and the combination is usually a shitshow.
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Hahaha SpaceX. And what do they do that the government doesn’t? Launch rockets?
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