Replies to post #12837 on The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[OakesCS]

Not intended as a jab. Just my observation that government infrastructure spending rarely if ever goes as originally sold to the public or under budget. As for private/public collaborations we can look at the splendid failure of Solyndra as an example of the general case.

As a counter example we have Bezos, Musk etc venturing personnel or private funds for rocket and satellite projects that have historically been government projects due to their complexity and capital costs and they appear to be doing things better and more efficiently than government operations. In the end they'll suck up a lot of government $s but I won't complain a bit about that or the path to it.