If the planet isn't poisoned more and if workers (and the public in general) aren't killed for arbitrary reasons on a whim, ascension is canceled. 
If the planet isn't poisoned more and if workers (and the public in general) aren't killed for arbitrary reasons on a whim, ascension is canceled.
lol libertaryans really think if we had less regulations than the pitiful ones we have now, they'd get their Galt's Gultch.
They already try Galt's Gulches, over and over again in basically lawless parts of the Earth, and they fail pretty fucking fast over and over again, often from internal backstabbing and fraud.
Okay but hear me out, what if we tried it again, but this time in S P A C E??
Literal vampire Th!el admitted seasteading was a failure, and then in the same speech said that's why spacesteading is next.
Sure it fails when there's free breathable air, a comfortable temperature, many ways to simply leave, and it's easy and cheap to ship supplies, but what if none of those things were true, and also any equipment malfunction wasn't merely inconvenient but actively life-threatening?
In case anyone hasn't seen it or would like to see it again: https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project
They will actually, but not the utopia, but what really happened - some people will get all the wealth and they will be left with nothing in the desert.
And of course, we did have less regulations. No regulations at all at the start