Greetings good citizen! While not a favorite subject of Futurists Past, Space was assumed to be 'easily conquerable' by the [then] relentless march of technology.
Why don't we already have thriving colonies on the Moon and Mars? Remove 'cost' from the equation (all resources are 'free' to the owner, another good reason to re-think this capitalism baloney; we should, at the very least, have a 'dump' on one of them...but we don't.
And again the question of why comes to mind?
We could ask an 'economist' but by now most of us realize a degree in economics is about as useful as a degree in voodoo. If economics were in fact a science, don't you think at least one of them could work out a 'fix' to the crashing global capitalist economy?
No irony should be lost on the fact that economics (as it is currently, er, 'practiced') isn't that far removed from voodoo. Worse, the factors scuttling widespread prosperity are in fact correctable (but modern economists are trained to ignore them.)
Shifting into reverse for a moment and asking one of these so-called 'economic experts' why we don't colonize 'near space' and their response (if they had one) would be the ever so handy 'opportunity cost'.
Why would you 'waste the resources' to ship, say highly toxic materials off planet? [The beginning of the arguement that says 'better use' of those resources could be found here for what you wanted to use to blast refuse into space.)
This of course begs the question of why the sky has become a parking lot for secret military satellites...and what about the cost to park them in space...and you'd get either, "They're keeping us safe" or "that's the military's business".
While a few dozen are part of the GPS network, understand the Global Positioning System wasn't developed to assist people that can get lost driving around the block. GPS was developed to improve the accuracy of weapons delivery...
While our 'wiser heads' expended the resources to send equipment capable of photographing you in your bathroom naked from space. Emptying the world's cooling ponds of spent reactor rods and sending them into space/storage on an uninhabitable planet would have been a 'waste'?
More 'baffling' good citizen is half the planet's workforce is 'under-utilized/unemployed and yet these orangutans 'fail to see the benefit' of providing them with jobs. [I appreciate this is an insult to orangutans and that there is much that needs to be done here on this planet but 'resources' are being 'squandered' [largely through the incarceration of those the current system doesn't/can't provide opportunity for and that is criminal mismanagement along with the mis-management of criminals.]
Past or future good citizen, the 'decision-making process' regarding resource usage needs a serious overhaul...but that's just my humble opinion.
It also points a large rubberized finger at the, er, 'efficacy' of our 'college educated' management team. Seems these clowns wouldn't know the right questions to ask if their lives depended on it (and, none too shockingly, ours increasingly do depend on our ability to effect the course of human progress.
When you start rioting over the mis-management of resources, their [the people in charge] plan is to shoot you like feral animals...and nobody will be thinking about 'opportunity costs' them. They've butchered millions, many of whom could have been mankind's salvation, just to preserve their own power {often solely for the sake of that power.)
Humanity can no longer afford the luxury of that kind of 'self-interested' thinking. It's time to place humanity first.
If we are to ever advance into the cosmos we must first put our own 'house' in order...and while there aren't many old time futurists around to ask, I believe they'd all agree.
Um, once again, it is not my intention to tell you 'what to think', I merely want to 'give you something to think about'...
Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Why don't we already have thriving colonies on the Moon and Mars? Remove 'cost' from the equation (all resources are 'free' to the owner, another good reason to re-think this capitalism baloney; we should, at the very least, have a 'dump' on one of them...but we don't.
And again the question of why comes to mind?
We could ask an 'economist' but by now most of us realize a degree in economics is about as useful as a degree in voodoo. If economics were in fact a science, don't you think at least one of them could work out a 'fix' to the crashing global capitalist economy?
No irony should be lost on the fact that economics (as it is currently, er, 'practiced') isn't that far removed from voodoo. Worse, the factors scuttling widespread prosperity are in fact correctable (but modern economists are trained to ignore them.)
Shifting into reverse for a moment and asking one of these so-called 'economic experts' why we don't colonize 'near space' and their response (if they had one) would be the ever so handy 'opportunity cost'.
Why would you 'waste the resources' to ship, say highly toxic materials off planet? [The beginning of the arguement that says 'better use' of those resources could be found here for what you wanted to use to blast refuse into space.)
This of course begs the question of why the sky has become a parking lot for secret military satellites...and what about the cost to park them in space...and you'd get either, "They're keeping us safe" or "that's the military's business".
While a few dozen are part of the GPS network, understand the Global Positioning System wasn't developed to assist people that can get lost driving around the block. GPS was developed to improve the accuracy of weapons delivery...
While our 'wiser heads' expended the resources to send equipment capable of photographing you in your bathroom naked from space. Emptying the world's cooling ponds of spent reactor rods and sending them into space/storage on an uninhabitable planet would have been a 'waste'?
More 'baffling' good citizen is half the planet's workforce is 'under-utilized/unemployed and yet these orangutans 'fail to see the benefit' of providing them with jobs. [I appreciate this is an insult to orangutans and that there is much that needs to be done here on this planet but 'resources' are being 'squandered' [largely through the incarceration of those the current system doesn't/can't provide opportunity for and that is criminal mismanagement along with the mis-management of criminals.]
Past or future good citizen, the 'decision-making process' regarding resource usage needs a serious overhaul...but that's just my humble opinion.
It also points a large rubberized finger at the, er, 'efficacy' of our 'college educated' management team. Seems these clowns wouldn't know the right questions to ask if their lives depended on it (and, none too shockingly, ours increasingly do depend on our ability to effect the course of human progress.
When you start rioting over the mis-management of resources, their [the people in charge] plan is to shoot you like feral animals...and nobody will be thinking about 'opportunity costs' them. They've butchered millions, many of whom could have been mankind's salvation, just to preserve their own power {often solely for the sake of that power.)
Humanity can no longer afford the luxury of that kind of 'self-interested' thinking. It's time to place humanity first.
If we are to ever advance into the cosmos we must first put our own 'house' in order...and while there aren't many old time futurists around to ask, I believe they'd all agree.
Um, once again, it is not my intention to tell you 'what to think', I merely want to 'give you something to think about'...
Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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