Gee, this guy is even more brutally honest than I am:
5 Horrifying Facts You Didn’t Know About the Space Shuttle
Also, an EASA administrator was roasted for his answer that reusable spacecraft would reduce jobs, but it looks like SpaceX is doomed financially because there aren’t enough missions to make low-cost launches financially viable for its 5,000+ staff.
Which is why SpaceX is polluting the sky with microsatellites.
Around 1998, I had a chance to talk to a de Havilland aircraft engineer. It went like this:
Me: Since we lose money on every airplane built, why not just close the Toronto factory and do design work?
de Havilland Engineer: because without a jobs scheme, there won’t be any budget for design work.
Of course, then Bombardier gives the A220 design to Airbus in 2015, so who was right? 