Is your opinion the same for a project that, though it could take a million years for it to be "finished", you start reaping the rewards immediately? (E.g. A dyson swarm, where each additional station is useful.
idk unless we've got immortal beings overseeing it the timescale is gonna throw a wrench in it, hell, even if they're immortal. cultures are constantly developing, language changes, bad things could happen. there's no examples yet of the kind of institutional & political cohesion we might need. space communism being an infinitely stable and enduring system is probably a bit naive
I don't think I agree that such a high amount of political and institutional cohesion would be necessary. It's less of a singular project that has a start and a finish and more of a thing that would be continuously added on to as power and/or habitats are needed until it's full and we can't add anything else.
Is your opinion the same for a project that, though it could take a million years for it to be "finished", you start reaping the rewards immediately? (E.g. A dyson swarm, where each additional station is useful.
idk unless we've got immortal beings overseeing it the timescale is gonna throw a wrench in it, hell, even if they're immortal. cultures are constantly developing, language changes, bad things could happen. there's no examples yet of the kind of institutional & political cohesion we might need. space communism being an infinitely stable and enduring system is probably a bit naive
I don't think I agree that such a high amount of political and institutional cohesion would be necessary. It's less of a singular project that has a start and a finish and more of a thing that would be continuously added on to as power and/or habitats are needed until it's full and we can't add anything else.