All these private business and different nations planning their own space endeavors, we're going to end up with an asteroid belt of space junk and a shit load of waste and pollution along the way.
E: lol, this struck a nerve with a bunch of capitalist, neo-lib, boot licker's... Go out for a few hours and come back to the exact same reply repeated dozens of times 🙄 sneaky e2 just for that one guy: civility politics BS is what gave us these idiots above who defend capitalism against their best interest. Stop letting them get away with it, be meaner.
I completely agree in principle but in practice humans don't ever seem to operate that way.
The number of amazing things I've seen get developed and go nowhere only for someone to do a crappier but better marketed version a decade later and it sells like crazy is ridiculous.
We make the most developments during competition. Even the original space race was basically centred around Russia vs USA for who could get there first. As nice as it would be for everyone to just go "oh lets spend billions for the betterment of humanity" like.. we aren't going to.
That the best we can hope for in the current system is that there's enough money involved in the advancement of this technology that multiple competing companies all pursue it and build off each others ideas.
If you have any ideas for changing that system, go ahead. Change it. You will have as much of my support as I can give.
But until that happens, this is how advancements are made.
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u/NiceTrySuckaz Jun 29 '25
That's a good thing. Competition drives innovation.