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Why don't we offer the masses an opportunity to create a new world? Humans are becoming useless at roughly the same time, the cost of space travel is reaching a
by partisan 10y ago
Why don't we offer the masses an opportunity to create a new world? Humans are becoming useless at roughly the same time, the cost of space travel is reaching a cost some 10 - 20% of the traditional cost.
The problem is that we value human life and would never subject people to the dangers of space even if they willingly accept the risk. Life is too valuable!
But what happens when a human life is worth nothing? What happens when a human's contribution to humanity is net negative and every person is, by default, a waste of resources? What happens when a person is cheaper than a machine for some tasks?
It wasn't too long ago that people threw themselves to the ocean in the hope of establishing a better life somewhere unknown. People died, but no one found the cost too high to bear. Life wasn't too valuable then.
We have an opportunity here, but we have to devalue life to take advantage of it. And btw, I don't delude myself. I am sure that my children or grandchildren, no matter how successful I may come to be, will be part of that generation, Generation Zero, the one without value. But I hope they have a purpose, at least.