This doesn't make any sense. Space colonization is akin to the colonization of lichen in primary succession. You're not taking over anyone's home. The issues with space colonization instead include matters such as: natural preservation, workplace health and safety, child-rearing ethics, resource distribution, pollution of the night sky as well as orbits, attaining human consensus in general (something private companies by definition are incapable of doing!), etc.
I just mean in the sense that their objective is a monopoly on free land and resource extraction. This being Musk, there’s probably a belief that if he’s successful, he’ll be able to exert some form of leverage over earth governments with this monopoly that he can’t already by being a mere billionaire.
This doesn't make any sense. Space colonization is akin to the colonization of lichen in primary succession. You're not taking over anyone's home. The issues with space colonization instead include matters such as: natural preservation, workplace health and safety, child-rearing ethics, resource distribution, pollution of the night sky as well as orbits, attaining human consensus in general (something private companies by definition are incapable of doing!), etc.
I just mean in the sense that their objective is a monopoly on free land and resource extraction. This being Musk, there’s probably a belief that if he’s successful, he’ll be able to exert some form of leverage over earth governments with this monopoly that he can’t already by being a mere billionaire.
There's probably a hard copy of Heinlein's "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" on his bookshelf that he never actually read beyond the dust cover.