BjornP wrote:And the US would "need" a "Benign Fascistic" government to do that? That's how you got to the Moon, is it? And you really want to take your lessons on how to organize your society from... China?Speaker to Animals wrote:
A lot of people don't want to hear this, but the only viable way to get the fuck off warworld and develop space is via a fascistic alignment of corporations under the aegis of the American government. You have to use the resources and technologies available from all our high-tech corporations. They have to be organized and unified under one direction. You have to combine the capital of these corporations with the American treasury to bootstrap the economic development of space. From there, it should be able to fund itself to the detriment of the rest of the nations of the world as we slowly trickle in vast quantities of valuable resources, flooding markets, and almost overnight rendering entire national treasuries worthless as we flood gold and other precious metal markets to pay off our national debt.
Fascism in the past sucked. But I don't see how to solve this as Americans without doing something like that. China is going to do it similarly with their state-controlled quasi-capitalism organized under the aegis of the communist party.
He who mines that shit first wins.
If US companies currently see no profit motive in going into the asteroid mining business, does your ideal Super-Government simply direct them to do so?
It wouldn't need to be a fascist government. But the idea of coordinating private corporations under government control to accomplish some good is a fascist one.
We didn't need to become communists to create the Social Security Administration either. Stop your virtue signaling.