Well known NZ investment firm ACC has taken a 25 per cent stake in privately-owned firm NZLSAT which hopes to launch a Russian built satellite into space.
As a government monopoly, they have a statutory obligation to take money from employees and employers and either spend it on novel investment schemes, tv advertising (to get across the idea that government monopolies are a really good thing) or lawyers, trying to either slow down payment rates, take payment money back of the victims, or argue that they shouldn't have to pay compound interest interest just because they took nine years to settle a claim.
In space, no-one can make a claim.
Related Link: Satellite Investment - an Accident Waiting to Happen
As a government monopoly, they have a statutory obligation to take money from employees and employers and either spend it on novel investment schemes, tv advertising (to get across the idea that government monopolies are a really good thing) or lawyers, trying to either slow down payment rates, take payment money back of the victims, or argue that they shouldn't have to pay compound interest interest just because they took nine years to settle a claim.
In space, no-one can make a claim.
Related Link: Satellite Investment - an Accident Waiting to Happen