[AR] Re: Rocket Labs

  • From: Bill Claybaugh <wclaybaugh2@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:54:07 -0400



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On Sep 17, 2015, at 12:16 AM, David Weinshenker <daze39@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bill Claybaugh wrote:
Why assume evil when nature is a sufficient explanation?
Airlines are both commodity businesses--they have no pricing
power--and service businesses--they have inherently high
costs--so they naturally, through competition, fall to no
profit pricing. Space transportation is no different.

So what you're saying is that transportation (space, air, or
otherwise) - as a business - is a relatively pure example of
the sort of "flat and crowded" market in which "racing to the
bottom" may be expected as an emergent behavior?


Careful, details matter: if every family in America were going to keep several
spaceships in the garage, we would be comparing to the automobile industry, for
example, where none of these issues occur.

The specific nature of the space transportation business means that it is
inherently no profit; that is not necessarily true of all transportation
related businesses.

Bill

-dave w


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