Oh okay, so you shouldn't mind if I send a rich guy into the vacuum of space unprotected then, if ones circumstances mean nothing.

Surely he could entrepreneur himself some oxygen while he's out there. Why would he need to be on Earth with breathable air? After all, personal choices are all that matter, right? So he should be able to succeed in any environment.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Oh okay, so you shouldn’t mind if I send a rich guy into the vacuum of space unprotected then

    You don't even have to go that far. Sending people into orbit is incredibly expensive, after all.

    Just move said millionaire-mindset folks to the thing they keep asking for - Galt's Gulch. Find a nice little valley in the Montana wilderness and set up a small township, with the rudimentary basics - tents for shelter, a stream with water the FDA has declared potable, access to some reasonably arable land and a stockpile of foodstuffs to see the initial inhabitants through the winter. Then let these ubermensch recreate society in their perfect image, secluded from the world such that nasty externalities like Federal Reserve interest rates and the villainous Chinese export markets can't interfere with their Utopian project.

    No rules. No regulations. No consequences other than what thy choose to inflict on each other. Just a heavily militarized border that keeps them safe from the outside world, unlimited opportunity to Do As Thou Wilt, and a camera crew to document their individualist success stories that can be syndicated for the education of the idiot populist socialist loser masses.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      POTABLE water? woah there Rockefeller, this is America, you’d better ask Nestlé first.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        I assume the board's opinions will be better manifest from within the camp than without.

        Once they're free to exhert full uninhibited control over local potable water, we can let the free market sort out the best measure of potability.