Seems like the material human cost of space travel never even occurs to them. The poor indigenous people who mine the precious metals and iron etc. that make the spacecraft, the massive costs of feeding and housing all the engineers and scientists working on Musk's futile vanity project -- none of that is even on their radar. They reason that because SpaceX is more efficient and cost effective than Boeing/Lockheed/Northrop that Elon deserves all the praise in the world. In their eyes, Elon is "selflessly" dedicating his time and money to "saving" the human race by making it multi-planetary. The OP calls anti-Elon people "cultural authoritarians" fueled by "billionaire-hate" who want us to be "imprisoned on this planet forever".
Imprisoned on this planet???????
Are you fucking kidding me? Every good thing a human being could possiby want is on this planet. What's on the moon? Grey rocks. What's on Mars? Red dust. There's nothing out there. There's really nothing in space worth having. If you're not happy on earth, that's not a problem with earth, that's a problem with you (or the social or economic structure around you). Moving to a new planet is not going to solve your self esteem problems. That whole thread is just full of so much bullshit.
If we assume this reddit dork is telling the truth, why doesn't he just speak up and offer even just a little pushback if he believes in this so much. Does he really respect himself that little? Or maybe it's not that strong a "value", because it has zero effect on his day to day life. Someone teach these people basic self respect and decency please god.
Ok then, lol. No chance a person like this is going to get the chance to engage in those "other things". People can sense the desperation and lack of basic self value from miles away.
ive noticed libertarian types on reddit always wank on about "my values" and posture like they would go to the barricades for them (as we see here, they clearly wouldnt of course) and its always some banal shit like the most important moral question of their existence is the freedom to use bitcoin to buy skyrim dlc or some shit
like fine youve bought into some dipshit pedo ideology, but its never even something ostensibly highminded like "using the power of free markets to bring world harmony" or anything, like have some fucking imagination at least
Yeah pretty much. They're usually bored comfortable failsons, with not much important to do, so they come up with these absurd "values" that amount to fuck all at the end of the day.
Can't get that sloppy if he's acting like a dweeb