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Why are Elon Musk + Jeff Bezos + Richard Branson (billionaires) so fascinated with space?
by MuffinFlavored 3y ago
Why are Elon Musk + Jeff Bezos + Richard Branson (billionaires) so fascinated with space?
- remir 3y agoSpace is going to be industrialized, sooner or later. Since it takes massive amount of capital to do so, you can pretty much limit this kind of thing to wealthy nations or multi-billionaires such as Musk, Bezos and Branson.
- MuffinFlavored 3y agoI think this is absolutely part of it, I was just trying to separate whether the correlation between being a billionaire and enjoying space for non-industrialization reasons is correlated
- anonporridge 3y agoBecause people who have successfully acquired massive amounts of wealth and power know full well that opening up access to space will yield more material and energy wealth than any previous leap human civilization has ever made. Small thinkers are satisfied keeping their imagination on Earth alone, but small thinkers don't lead massive leaps of prosperity.
- panick21_ 3y agoMusk: Inspired by having a backup for humanity on Mars, and an aspirational goal to motivate everybody Bezos: Space will be industrialized and earth will remain some kind of national park Richard Branson: He doesn't give a shit other then to self aggrandize himself further as far as I can tell.