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You're missing the fact that the US military is in its core a employment and social services program used extensively to create artificial jobs and artificial d
by geezerjay 8y ago
You're missing the fact that the US military is in its core a employment and social services program used extensively to create artificial jobs and artificial demand for skilled labour and high-tech products and services.
Not to mention the cultural importance that the US military as an institution has on the US, of course.
- freehunter 8y agoAnd those skilled labor and high-tech products and services would transition extraordinarily well to a space-based economy.
- geezerjay 8y agoWhat exactly makes you believe that rocket science is a domain that's easy to transition into?
- freehunter 8y agoVery little about space is rocket science. Cars are really hard to build and it took thousands of years for mankind to build one, but that doesn't mean the person changing your oil has to know how to fabricate one from scratch in his garage. There are thousands of job titles around the auto industry that require zero knowledge of how cars work.