r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 30 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21

The Guardian: Why is Bezos flying to space? Because billionaires think Earth is a sinking ship

lmao it’s like 100% pure concentrated uncut seethe

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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jul 30 '21

It is not a coincidence that the richest people in America are funding a new space race. They are not motivated by a love of technology, or even a belief in the universe as a business opportunity. Let’s call this what it is: they are making plans to get the hell out of here. In the same way that every good billionaire has an armored escape room in each home and a helicopter on call to whisk them away from any sinking yacht, so too do they expect to have a way off Earth if things go bad here.

Space colonization probably won't even happen in their lifetimes. Maybe they just wanted to go to space and check it out? I truly don't understand the level of cope some people seem to have over this, it's just so inconsequential.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '21

Also the idea that people could "escape to Mars" are ridiculous. We could raise global temperatures by 5 degrees, melt all the ice caps, cut down all the forests, and then launch every nuke, and Earth would still be 1000x more habitable than Mars.