Why do we even need to try to convince people this is always the goal of capitalism? The capitalists literally say they’re going to do it
So they wanna make people pay them for the opportunity to undergo some of the most grueling physical and psychological feats possible (space flight followed by eight months of travel in a tin can) in order to live in Sealandia in space
Edit: AND THERES NOTHING TO DO ON MARS. You can bring back enough metals to devalue metals, but unless you only want to be a humanitarian, you'll probably care that you'll just be living in the equivalent of one small town in boring ass nowhere forever. Wanna visit anyone you've ever met before or go anywhere you've ever gone before? LOL
but unless you only want to be a humanitarian, you’ll probably care that you’ll just be living in the equivalent of one small town in boring ass nowhere forever.
one small town with slow as fuck internet, the fastest earth-internet connection physically possible with have over 3 mins of latency
cant wait for this Cunt to take us to mars; no Sjw, no Girls, just us boys sitting around in 55.9m sq miles of waste land, swapping MEMES !!
I would absolutely sign up and to work there to pay off my "debt" and immediately start agitating for Martian independence and a red Mars. Although that's assuming self-sustainability, otherwise it'd just immediately get starved out with draconian measures next time round.
It's all just fantasy now anyway
red Mars
I just finished reading Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson recently and it's one of the best sci-fi books I've encountered. Without giving away too much of the plot, Martian independence is a primary story line. Highly recommended.
His only plans for terraforming are to nuke the poles and melt the water.
It's like he just got done playing The Outer Worlds and thought "ooh there's an idea!"
All this slavery shit is gonna go down, it's just gonna happen on Earth.
Absolutely. I could even see the slavery starting as a down-payment to a mars trip. Like, prepay and then that debt before you go. Spend your life on earth working off a debt for a trip that never happens.
This fantasy is just asking for your serfs to steal all your food and burn your oxygen tanks. The fuck you mean "paying off my debt" bitch I'll cut your space suit and you'll boil to shit
The people most likely to volunteer to become Musk's Martian serfs are going to be PMC true-believers with zero class consciousness. Much more likely is their unfortunate great^n-grandchildren serfs saddled with ancestral debts are gonna eventually snap and pull a French Revolution on King Musk the Nth.
Have you ever tried even camping with people who don't like you, there's only so much time you can go acting like a dick before your trip collapses. Imagine fantizising about collapsing your Mars space mission, only loser rats do it
It's just so weird to act like you're gonna enslave people when you'd be so vulnerable. You wouldn't want to piss off the only people you get to meet when you're so far from home because that's asking bleach in your food lmao. Billionaires don't understand humans at all huh
Imagine getting sent off into the void of space because you tried to unionize your workplace in Mars
Imagine wanting to barely scratch a living off red rocks on a planet with a third of earth gravity, when you could just build an O'Neil cylinder like a sensible person
Musk and his cult are the dumbest motherfuckas on the planet
Can we just shoot Elon to Mars and have him build his utopia there? Maybe he can take some other Billionaires along. Clearly they are the most worthy of all of us and will have their super utopia built in weeks.
Didn’t you know that billionaire is capable of producing labor worth 370000 times that of their average employee? That’s how they got so wealthy
No I totally know, that's why I say we should do this and that they'd have it built in weeks. Let all us poor rubes wallow in our own filth back here on earth, it's what we deserve.
I would laugh so hard if we sent billionaires and no one else. Maybe we can just lie to them and tell them we made the air breathable.
He just wants to go somewhere he can set up an apartheid to profit off of again
legions of mouthbreathers desperate to sell their souls for a chance to die on Mars for Egod
Musk could absolutely run for President as a Republican and win. Or a Democrat.
Critical support fir the Martian Workers Socialist Autonomous Republic.
