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So much for freedom. If another person isn’t hurting you by building a colony, why should you have a say? Sounds like a society based on jealousy and envy. If

by babesh 6y ago

So much for freedom. If another person isn’t hurting you by building a colony, why should you have a say? Sounds like a society based on jealousy and envy. If you want a colony, go advocate for more funding for NASA. The US government’s budget is in the trillions and up till now it deficit spends like crazy. That is far larger than the entire net worth of any of these billionaires. The real issue is that government and society now is too fractured and inefficient to actually execute on such a project and people just want to commandeer things instead.

babesh 6y ago
I swear to god, the future is here. We have the nincompoops of Atlas Shrugged combined with the doublespeak of 1984. Sad, sad world.
paganel 6y ago
> So much for freedom. If another person isn’t hurting you by building a colony, Who said anything about "non-hurting"? Going back to tech investments, I'm pretty sure that if we were to put the initial investments into companies like Facebook, Twitter or even Google up to vote ("do they deserve the money or not given their future influence on society?") the results would be pretty close, given how much they actually did hurt part of our society. The same goes for these "colonies", which are basically just another tech investment with the potential to influence the life of millions/billions in the future, potentially for the worst.
- babesh 6y ago
  You still have not shown a single way these colonies hurt. They don’t exist yet. You just read hypotheticals from one side. It is also known as pre-crime. Here are some examples. Look at the Pilgrims. They left because of religious persecution. It doesn’t matter at all if they were or were not rich. Why should you have a say as to why they should not be able to leave?
  - babesh 6y ago
    So you are putting up to a vote whether a person or group of people get to leave?
  - babesh 6y ago
    If you have an issue with Twitter in current form, go get a law passed. Don’t prosecute them before they have done anything. Don’t go pass laws that violate rights such as freedom of movement.
wruza 6y ago
When you say colonies, my mind renders these dystopian plots when one guy builds a great community with tricky rules and then covertly abuses a whole next generation, because they grew up with it and most of them can’t see anything wrong or decide to quit. Thank god it’s only fiction and we don’t have that irl.
- EvilEy3 6y ago
  You read too much dystopian fiction. I don't see why society where sicko runs things is more likely than society where virtuous person builds heaven.
  - thaw13579 6y ago
    There are far more ways for things to go wrong than ways to go right.

by babesh 6y ago

babesh 6y ago

I swear to god, the future is here. We have the nincompoops of Atlas Shrugged combined with the doublespeak of 1984. Sad, sad world.

paganel 6y ago

> So much for freedom. If another person isn’t hurting you by building a colony, Who said anything about "non-hurting"? Going back to tech investments, I'm pretty sure that if we were to put the initial investments into companies like Facebook, Twitter or even Google up to vote ("do they deserve the money or not given their future influence on society?") the results would be pretty close, given how much they actually did hurt part of our society. The same goes for these "colonies", which are basically just another tech investment with the potential to influence the life of millions/billions in the future, potentially for the worst.

babesh 6y ago
You still have not shown a single way these colonies hurt. They don’t exist yet. You just read hypotheticals from one side. It is also known as pre-crime. Here are some examples. Look at the Pilgrims. They left because of religious persecution. It doesn’t matter at all if they were or were not rich. Why should you have a say as to why they should not be able to leave?
- babesh 6y ago
  So you are putting up to a vote whether a person or group of people get to leave?
- babesh 6y ago
  If you have an issue with Twitter in current form, go get a law passed. Don’t prosecute them before they have done anything. Don’t go pass laws that violate rights such as freedom of movement.

wruza 6y ago

When you say colonies, my mind renders these dystopian plots when one guy builds a great community with tricky rules and then covertly abuses a whole next generation, because they grew up with it and most of them can’t see anything wrong or decide to quit. Thank god it’s only fiction and we don’t have that irl.

EvilEy3 6y ago
You read too much dystopian fiction. I don't see why society where sicko runs things is more likely than society where virtuous person builds heaven.
- thaw13579 6y ago
  There are far more ways for things to go wrong than ways to go right.