Kinda weird to see space go from a frontier to be explored by nations to the playground of a few ultra-rich billionaires.
Honestly feels like we're drifting headfirst into cyberpunk territory.
Already pretty much there, just doesn't have the neon veneer that everybody always wanted. As long as they burn it on inane things instead of building a private army I suppose we ain't quite there yet.
I wonder when he is going to sent his lowly employees to the first moon based fulfillment warehouse.
Dude is gonna make the Helios station from Borderlands isn't he?
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Jeff Bezos was actually a hardcore communist all along, he merely used the capitalist system to gain enough wealth and technology to start his communist space station
Capitalism loves captive consumers, what's better than putting people on a space station where literally all their needs are owned and met by a single entity they cannot control
are you familiar with the polish people's republic
are you familiar with mining towns and company stores?
Good ol' Buy-N-Large.
Guess the one plus of the Amazon BnL-esque world government is Bezos seems more willing to do cool space stuff than current governments. Two people trying is better than one.
Fucking ugh; I hate how all these bastards stick with the most bland version of weather ever.
I'd rather hold off on cool space stuff if it means private corporations are going to establish their own governments and domains in space.
Even Bezos would have a hard time generating 1/1000th the funding something like an O'Neill cylinder requires
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No it doesn't.
Words mean things. You can't freely slap the word "capitalism" down when talking about economic woes and be accurate. Capitalism means free markets.
I wouldn't want to live in a place without rain or grey skies. Snow I could possibly do without, but permanent sunshine would probably be pretty miserable after a while.
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capitalism doesn't mean free markets just means trade is through private means and for profit, its a purposefully vague definition that everything short of Soviet Russia can meet. Now Laissez-faire Capitalism is about free markets, but that's a specific version of capitalism.
There's a litany of dystopian (and utopian) novels where private corporations own space stations or colonies and everybody is forced to buy everything through them, which itself has lots of historical precedent
It literally doesn't. Capitalism is private ownership of trade and production in a market economy. A captive market is still a market.
To a certain degree, commercialisation of space is a good thing - as long as no private party has an interest in space, funding will be at the levels seen currently; that is, low.
It will be a while before any company has any interest beyond geostationary orbit, though - apart from the billionaire passion projects currently playing out. But when they get there, other services will follow.
We're a beautiful species: we create extravagant solutions to unnecessary problems we also created.
A market under a single producer is not a market, though. Market economies come with competition implicitly or it's just a demand economy owned by a corporation rather than the government (at which point the two would likely be non-distinguishsble)
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Going out on a limb but I'd say his station, or any colony for that matter will be humid and hot because people and plants provide a lot of moisture and heat, and its very hard to get rid of that in space especially when you're talking about a station with as much surface area as an o'Neill cylinder
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