re: #401 Political Atheist

Nobody said NET profit. Which is not a bad thing either by nature. Capitalism is a good thing when not abused. Net profit does much more than merely attract investment from outside. It provides funds for R&D, expansion and raises.

There’s plenty of room for private profit in public-owned nukes. We can still hire private firms to build them. There can be the same R&D pipeline as feeds the military— well, while we’re at it, we should go over that pipeline, because it’s gotten way out of whack. But anyway, nobody debates that the government-private partnership on military tech has produced great innovations.