| >Finally for gods sake, the current budget is 0.49% of the total spend. Increase that to 5% A couple years ago I wanted to just create a proper multi-national politics-free space organization (I know, it would never happen with the way things are). At the time if we took 1% of the GDP (presumably via a tax) of the top 5 nations you would have created a 408 billion a year budget. Staffed by academics, create a board that has heads of industry, experts in various fields (various types of engineers, test pilot, medical doctor, etc) and scientists in relevant field and set a max term they can serve with the initial ones picked in varying intervals (3 year, 5 year, 7 years) so that you are only replacing a percentage of your people at any given time so you can stay more focused on long-term goals. Also try and keep relatively equal numbers of representatives from each financially contributing country on the board. Also allow other countries to contribute 1% of their GDP unless they are an economically disadvantaged country then allow them to contribute at a much lower scale with scaled benefits. As far as the 'benefits' allow every country contributing 1% of their GDP to have 100% royalty free access to any technologies/discoveries/data that is a result of this agency. Countries that were sliding-scale members, pay 1/10th of the royalty/fee that non-contributing companies would and still keep the non-contributing country fee relatively low (even 1% fee on something that might result in a profit of 100 million a year globally could extend a given mission a year or more). It's a massively unrealistic dream but it's probably the closest we could get to something like Starfleet. |
That's not really my root cause objection. It's the "politics free" part. It's not in my mind that that isn't achievable I have doubts as to wether it's desirable. Politics in my mind is about who or what gets hurt and who or what gets helped in any endevour.
Trying to get rid of politics seems to me like trying to get rid of pain. It's feedback. Try running any system without that - it won't work. I know a lot of the time the feedback is inaccurate but the fix is more inputs not less.