> there’s a lot of money to be made in making outer space safe for extractive capitalism. > There are only so many sovereign countries. Luxembourg is one of th

> there’s a lot of money to be made in making outer space safe for extractive capitalism. > There are only so many sovereign countries. Luxembourg is one of them. And throughout its history, it has survived by making laws that businesses want. It’s as though lobbyists write their legislation. In fact, sometimes they do. > It’s going to look like the extractive industries on earth. It’s going to be a repeat of what we're seeing in Congo. Now, one big difference is that there aren’t any humans to suffer human rights abuses up in space, so that’s good. It's frank, I'll give it that. Hooray for the future...!