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Found a few marvellous 1970s illustrations of space habitation (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Even with the technological issues of space colonization solved, how long before the unsolved social issues cause it to come crashing down?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Given the way society is currently set up, if we pursue space colonization then it'll become a luxury for billionaires to escape an unlivable planet. Worse, the hoards of the capital will have even less desires to fix things.

    (This is not some doomer or accelerationist take, just hating on billionaires.)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If we could agree on such a great project and make it happen, that would have a massive benefit for our overcoming the very problem you are talking about.

    If we could just agree to do something great together then that in itself would solve a lot of social ills.

    Cooperation, not competition. That is the key.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    Great, that covers the first generation in charge. What are the long term educational, economic, political, social, and cultural institutions that will keep things going when everyone alive will have been born on the ship/station, and nobody has first hand knowledge of how it started?

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