Say in a couple years we get unbelievable technology for spave travel. Let's assume we're alone in the galaxy. Governments announce missions to populate other worlds.
How do you feel about it? Do you hop in?
Say in a couple years we get unbelievable technology for spave travel. Let's assume we're alone in the galaxy. Governments announce missions to populate other worlds.
How do you feel about it? Do you hop in?
The majority of the human experience is how we relate to other humans and sentient beings, not in how we relate to the inorganic world.
Additional human planets just for their own sake are not a good thing; in fact, they divide the human population to a point where human lands have only a scant, tenuous connection to each other.
Having billions more humans is a bad thing; each one's personal relevance to anything else becomes less and less, and human life becomes much more expendable.
The only reasons why a wise civilization would expand are scientific and security purposes. This is probably the answer to the Fermi paradox: aliens that haven't annihilated themselves are just living their best lives, with fairly tight-knit and continuous communities on just a few planets, refusing the option of exponential growth, maximizing the time span that their civilizations will last.
consider: seeing aliens would be cool
on the other hand other species might not even have the desire to socialize to the same extent as us which would make that specific motivation pretty much exclusive to humanity, though not capitalism so it wouldn't be inherently problematic but it would still explain fermi's paradoxbut space travel would still be bad under capitalism