One can only speculate about what would have been the path of development of nuclear power if the government hadn’t subsidized and therefore determined what was built and how. I always imagined that investors and developers would have started small and been much more innovative. Good thing the government didn’t run the computer business. We’d be using punchcards today.
Good thing the government didn’t run the computer business. We’d be using punchcards today.
A very salient example. One which I've been citing regularly as testimony to the industries less oppressed by government interference blossoming with innovation and creativity, versus those too bureaucratically regulated and thus static. The latter examples include automotive transportation (NTSB), environmental mitigations (e.g. wetland restrictions, EPA), highways (FedHA), commercial aviation, restricted design by building codes, energy production.
A big part of the problem is lawyers who can only contribute negatively to most initiatives but with the irrepressible need to extract their cut from any endeavor (as in the tagline below). Obama being a paragon, along with many politicians.
The truly disturbing thing is that the youthful, those with the most potential for initiative and imagination, do not see it. For some misguided reason they embrace bigoted, judgmental, untalented, authoritarians. What happened to us? No fathers?
Johnny Suntrade