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To transition into something resembling a government would not be very on brand for Apple. If anything they seem likely to blast off into space and colonize Mar
by bagacrap 7y ago
To transition into something resembling a government would not be very on brand for Apple. If anything they seem likely to blast off into space and colonize Mars with all the cash they've mined and stockpiled here.
- tomrod 7y agoAnd serve as the local authority there for at least awhile. It might follow something like this pattern, sans prior residents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
- xenospn 7y agoHow would that benefit their bottom line?
- ravenstine 7y agoBy having a planet where only Apple products are available and the inhabitants are a part of their cargo cult, maybe? hah
- tomrod 7y agoTaxation, typically.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoA place inhospitable to life? Yeah, this sounds a great plan to waste all their resources...
- whalabi 7y agoWell hang on, making human life multi-planetary is extremely valuable, if not essential for our future survival. And we can use technology to make Mars hospitable.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoYes, but Apple is very unlikely to achieve that, as not only it doesn't only take money, but all the money on the earth wouldn't be able to achieve that with current tech (or even next-decades tech...) We should instead concentrate on mitigating the ongoing collapse of our civilization, so that the next one might get a shot at that ! (And Apple is not likely to help here, on the opposite, they are too invested in kicking the can, which makes things worse.)
- webboynews 7y agoMars colonization would fit well, just like their recent products shiny and beautiful and utterly useless