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“If you’re so smart why are the only ways you have to get rich value extractive?” A thought I have often about our so called smart people

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Extraction of natural and human capital is the story of civilization unfortunately

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and people call me doomer! Extraction may be inevitable but is it desirable or sustainable? I agree the optimal amount of all bad things is nonzero but Many things were until they weren’t. Leaded gasoline was profitable and widespread and yet we somehow got it together to stop doing that

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Controversial but I believe Weber that the cultural fuel of capitalism was the Protestant work ethic Catholics were slower to industrialize for this reason Unfortunately we abandoned all that cultural fuel. I believe that without it we will find the system can no longer self sustain. It is why many push for what I argue are lesser economic systems without knowing why

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I believe the colonial frontiers helped fuel this as well and that opening up new frontiers in space would help address scarcity and fuel new growth

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I agree to a degree. Frontier makes being lazy deadly. Puts the whole ideology on steroids. But I don’t think we have long enough to wait — we are so far away from space colonization 🥲

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I believe our distance on space colonization is mostly political I and I believe many others would gladly board Orion project type multi generational space ships towards new worlds even if it won’t be arriving for 15 generations

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No way they have a lot to figure out about the resilience of the body. People would do it, the courage is there, but it’s hard for me to imagine how they would survive. Some of those ISS guys get back low key rekt

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I think many of us would die in space and lots of learning would take place along the way and be of use both to those on the trips and those back on earth too Many people died crossing over to America whether by boat like Columbus or walking across in earlier times

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Maybe but like when the people signed up for the trip to America it was assumed survivable People would sign up for these space missions and it would be hard to see them as anything but suicide missions. Your entire biology is in the wrong environment 100% of the time in space. Long duration space flight today already can cause irreversible brain damage https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10235498/ https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/esdmd/hhp/risk-of-spaceflight-associated-neuro-ocular-syndrome/ And the radiation!!!! 😱 I bet if you could rally space martyrs Elon would be happy to put all of you to use, but other than him it feels like a hard sell to all to say “we are going to do a suicide mission and ask you to go kill yourself so your kids can get to Mars”

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some of my fave TNG episodes had those rare moments with Picard back on earth walking around in his vineyards. finally, phew, not in a box! see also opening scene of KSG Aurora where they are sailing… and only after a bit do you realize that they are still in a box, just a big one we aren’t meant to live boxed up, metaphor and irl

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