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Why? That centers power in the hands of the few. And what happens after they die, the project does with them. Imagine if he wasn't a billionaire and neither wer

• LifeLiverTransp 7y ago
  Also hobby projects with abandunt money tend to push for the "Wow"-solution. Not the cheapest possible solution. Although that would have been solidboosters + spaceguns- and automated in orbit-assembly.
• classicsnoot 7y ago
  > centers power in the hands of the few Power inevitably becomes centered in a small group. This seems to be an immutable trait of either power itself or people-groups in general. Regardless, it is unavoidable everywhere except on paper, which is to say conjecturally. Also, billionaires dying don't kill industries. They might kill devastatingly expensive pet hobbies,but not industries. It always feels good to predict that humans would be getting along swimmingly if it weren't for a handful of bad actors, but there really isn't a case for this expectation based on history. What there is a case for, as has been demonstrated countless times in literally every human endeavor, is an ordered hierarchy pursuing a declared set of goals and reaping unintended/unexpected benefit and detriment along the way. It is like pushing a boulder from point A to B; sometimes it needs to be pushed up hill and other times it must be guided downhill. The idea that "it would be so great if we stopped pushing boulders up hill and only guided them downhill" (a metaphorical interpretation of the happy, co-equal group of like minded workers) ignores the topographical reality of effort, endeavor, intention, and challenge.