Re:The US is building factories at a wildly fast rate
by standardUser on Friday June 09, 2023 @05:24PM
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Prior to Deng, they were operating under a command economy, which is not what we are discussing.
"The 5th Republic has been teetering on the edge of collapse for the last few. years, so I wouldn't be so bullish on France."
OK, I don't think we're going to see eye to eye on anything if you hold those kind of hyper-cynical views.
The 5th Republic has been teetering on the edge of collapse for the last few. years, so I wouldn't be so bullish on France.
BY ARPA I'm not sure if you're referring to the Advanced Research Projects Agency or the American Rescue Plan which is now stupidly called ARPA sometimes.
Um yeah, NASA was pretty cool back in the day when they were shooting V2s at the moon. But later efforts like the shuttle were kind of boondoggles because it was tethered to goofy military spying stuff, so it ended up being shitty for science and a dead end for anything commercial. That's not really a great success story for industrial policy IMHO.