There is no way nationalized SpaceX or Starlink wouldn't immediately get it's budget cut to nothing. Then a few years/decades later maybe the government would host a commercial LEO satellite program to try to revive its fledgling capabilities.

Good luck finding the $2 trillion or so needed to compensate shareholders, as required by the Fifth Amendment.

And don’t forget who most of that cash would go to.

People keep saying this, how do you guarantee that Starlink doesn't turn to crap after it is nationalized? No one who calls for nationalization ever has an answer to this.

Frankly, there is the argument that all of this tech and optimization was there for others to develop but no one cared that much and its only now after you and others realize how good it is that you want to just go in and take it "because its so vital to national security".

Furthermore why can't someone just copy them? Drop a ton of money on poaching their engineers and just copy whatever the government needs?

Clearly leadership at SpaceX including Musk are a driving force behind this being so good...just look at the trash all the other companies are peddling. The magic might just go away if its nationalized and if it does then you probably can't just go "oh sorry bro heres your company back pls give us more magic".

What a silly comment :). Do you realize that spacex could not have come about without someone doing it privately?