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Okaayyyyy... Let us be ridiculous. Why do you assume all of space will not belong to India for all of time? Why do you assume Mars has zero wealth? Over the lo
by cscurmudgeon 13y ago
Okaayyyyy... Let us be ridiculous. Why do you assume all of space will not belong to India for all of time?
Why do you assume Mars has zero wealth? Over the long term, this "loss" of wealth will result in helping humans (not just Indians) harness that wealth in Mars and other places.
- mikeash 13y agoI'm not assuming any of these things. At no point do I say that it's not worth the expenditure. I'm just saying that there is an expenditure.
- cscurmudgeon 13y agothere is an expenditure. That is a trivially vacuous statement. Everything has an expenditure. It is the net benefit that counts. Even breathing takes energy.
- mikeash 13y agoI was responding to a guy who said that no wealth was destroyed, which is another way of saying that there was no expenditure.
- cscurmudgeon 13y agoI believe he was talking about net wealth.