[craftinator]

Creating jobs by employing people to create an overpriced and inferior product at the expense of the taxpayer doesn't work in a capitalistic economy. It's just throwing away talent and stifles any competition that doesn't have MASSIVE financial backing, which is why it's taken so long to have any kind of commercial competition.

[ethbr0]

That's only true when excluding international trade and specialization.

In the world we live in, it's more often done to ensure some sort of domestic sourcing for national security critical components.

With the alternative not being that competition would spring up here, but that it would spring up there. (For values of there that are not here)