2 ms·
Did he talk about the future land ownership/governmentship of his colony? Will it be a personal dictatorship of Elon? Unlike Earth, once you're there, there's
by nixos 10y ago
Did he talk about the future land ownership/governmentship of his colony?
Will it be a personal dictatorship of Elon?
Unlike Earth, once you're there, there's nowhere to go without his blessing.
You can't just "move next door".
And knowing how "locked down" his Tesla cars are, it'll be interesting to see how he'll deal with a rebellious colony.
- ChampCrawDaddy 10y agoHey if you pay for the research and development, equipment, transportation, construction, and deal with the myriad of other problems that come with living on another planet I'm sure you'd be free to make your own rules. You make it sound like Elon owes us something already.
- nixos 10y agoHe doesn't. But that doesn't mean that I'm comfortable with potential dictatorships like that.
- lallysingh 10y agoIt doesn't have to be a dictatorship if you already control who gets on the planet.
- kirrent 10y agoHe didn't, but the outer space treaty would make any claim to ownership of land invalid. In the past he's discussed direct democracy as a preferred form of governance for smaller colonies with all/most laws having sunset provisions requiring them to be debated/voted upon on renewal.
- nixos 10y agoThe Outer Space treaty doesn't prevent one from owning property in space. But that's not the main issue. The main issue is that until another company opens up shop on Mars, you literally have nowhere to go, and the colony will be dependent on earth for quite some time. What will happen if Elon doesn't like what they're doing and threatens to withhold supplies? rockets? Internet?