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If a third-world worker is cheaper than a fully automated system, then you can bet corporations will use them. The craft delivering the miners to the asteroid m
by lenkite 5y ago
If a third-world worker is cheaper than a fully automated system, then you can bet corporations will use them. The craft delivering the miners to the asteroid might be automated though. The back-to-base craft will be made operational only after video verification that the quota has been met.
- emteycz 5y agoYeah... but how would it be cheaper? Caring for humans is hard. Human societies are complex. All of that is a huge risk.
- lenkite 5y agoEasy - the caring part is outsourced to a [Contract Agency] registered in a nation with lax human rights regulations. If mental and long-term health is not a concern, minimal-subsistence living conditions can be made for pennies. If someone snaps or drops-out, they can be replaced from thousands of others on the long application list.
- emteycz 5y agoWe're talking about space here. Minimal living conditions absolutely can't be made for pennies, and introduce enormous risks of destruction even without any human inside. And the energy requirements...
- hef19898 5y agoFusion reactors and a bubble holding something just shy of one bar pressurized breathable air. Cheap enough when we talk about industrial scale asteroid mining. You just have to care a lot less about the people in these bubbles in space than we do now.
- emteycz 5y agoI'm not saying it's not possible. I'm saying any competing company not doing that will soon push these off the market.
- m4rtink 5y agoSo Hard Rock Galactic but without hard core space dwarves? ;-)