> You know, we might really prefer to keep life interesting through art and science and building a giant spaceship to go exploring the galaxy. :D No, I don't k

> You know, we might really prefer to keep life interesting through art and science and building a giant spaceship to go exploring the galaxy. :D No, I don't know! I will add that perhaps the notion of a spacefaring earth with a functional, yet voluntary(?) participation economy, a peaceful one-world government, AND free/happy peoples seems like an impossible hippie-era fantasy to Thiel. Perhaps we can take clues from world history and judge whether his skepticism is reasonable.