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HBC & EIC didn't make money by gathering useful things for sale in Europe. They did it by taking advantage of the people living there, and paying them significa
by soperj 12y ago
HBC & EIC didn't make money by gathering useful things for sale in Europe. They did it by taking advantage of the people living there, and paying them significantly less for things that were of high value in Europe. There are no local natives to take advantage of to gather items to be sold at a handsome profit in space.
- cardine 12y agoThere are still very valuable resources in space.
- soperj 12y agocertainly, as there are in the "new world"/"india", they did it cheaply on the back of the know-how(geographic knowledge, on where to go and how to stay alive) and the labour of the indigenous.
- grey-area 12y agoIf your time scale is long enough, and your pockets deep enough, there is plenty of money in space in the form of asteroids which could easily be nudged to earth or lunar orbits and mined with robots.