Jared Isaacman

Like NASA, a government agency, why are we all chipping in as taxpayers into an agency like NASA?

Because you need NASA to do what no one else is capable of doing.

like what no organization, nonprofit, or company is capable of doing.

And that's what they did for a really long time.

And parts of it today, they still do.

Like the whole science, planetary sciences side, heliophysics, like they're doing things

that no one else will do unless we as taxpayers fund it.

And we should, because we should want to know about the solar system around us.

We're highly dependent on our star.

We should know as much as we can about that.

Star can get angry at times, create solar storms.

It's problematic for our way of life on here.

We should study these things.

But then there's another side of NASA.

and it's about 40% of the budget, that does a lot of things that SpaceX and companies eventually like Blue Origin and Rocket Labs and Stoke will be capable of doing.

And that's a problem.

It's a problem when NASA's in the business of building rockets and so is Blue Origin and so is SpaceX.

Because if you're doing what other people are doing,

you know, what's the draw?

Why wouldn't you just go work at SpaceX and you get a bunch of stock that's gonna be worth money or go work at Blue Origin and get a bunch of stock that's gonna be worth even more?