XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com   
      
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   "Robert Clark"  wrote:   
      
   > I haven't seen how much these teams have spent developing their robots but   
   > considering they are privately funded, and many using university students to   
   > do the research and construction, there's no doubt they cost less than the   
   > NASA developed robots.   
      
   Can you really say something is cheaper when you externalize costs by   
   exploiting free labor to produce it?  Are there going to be any actual   
   *jobs* for the people they’re using, or is this going to be yet another   
   cycle of telling kids they need to go to college, and then shoving them   
   into a job market that no longer values the skills they learned?   
      
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