Watched the livestream of the SpaceX landing today and all I saw was workers--hundreds an hundreds them, pulling off an incredibly difficult thing by working together.
Watched the news coverage and all I saw was a dipshit failson of some apartheid emerald miner--and a bunch of tech bros making the soy face in the comments.
Shit sucks.
Couldn't agree more, I've always had a massive interest in space advocacy but I can't think of anything worse than polluting space with Capitalism.
Yeah space travel is cool as shit, but under capitalism it's just going to be yet another toy for the rich and a way to make the money number go up.
Yeah, can't wait for the only connection the average person has to the final frontier be Jake Paul livestreams or some horseshit
There's actually an anime called Planetes where space has been privatized, and the less wealthy countries are basically [economically] barred from participating. It leads to certain activist sects trying to level the scales by doing space terrorism because it is the only recourse they are left with
Sigourney Weever tried to warn us.
Real shit