re: #221 Lazarus

People can privately, voluntarily pool their efforts to produce something that they want (volcano monitors). It’s called a “company”.

I see little profit motive in this particular “field”. What am I going to do with a stream of data from seismic monitors? How will it help me and my neighbors create contingency plans. It wont. Their *only* customer will be government at some level, city, county, state, federal. At that point there is little or no difference between the government contracting the work out to a company or university, or doing the work itself. It’s still taxpayer money being spent.