Re:Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contra...
by pmoriarty on Saturday July 31, 2021 @05:12PM
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"you'd better believe personalities like Musk and Bezos would clash a lot if they ever did a joint venture on something"
If they clash a lot it's proof they're not good at cooperating.
So maybe the answer is that Musk and Bezos are good at competing, but not good at cooperating.
That doesn't mean that cooperation is a losing strategy, but just that one has to be good at cooperating in order to succeed at it.
Re:Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contra...
by Meandering on Saturday July 31, 2021 @06:35PM
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People like to romanticize market competition as a epic battle of great minds and ideas that we all benefit from... but, in all honestly, it allows for comparative testing of diverse ideas while keeping pricing honest. Cooperation might lower the "cost" of producing similar products but, then we are producing similar products. A major goal of competition is to prevent us from putting all our eggs in one basket.
I mean what if all the space companies decided to use one company's rocket engine and they failed to delivery...
Another problem when multiple independent orgs pool resources and work together is you either end up with design-by-committee (which leads to overengineering and extra expense, both of which are anti-goals for SpaceX and BO), or deadlock when the parties can't agree. And you'd better believe personalities like Musk and Bezos would clash a lot if they ever did a joint venture on something.