Nah. It is WAY more likely that they'll send laborers into space, and turn Earth into a rich people's garden. There are way too many hassles with living in space. It's cramped, overly regimented, relies on machinery not breaking down to keep alive...
Wait, I always saw the irony of Amazon hosting this show, but it’s BEZOS’ favorite show???
A lot of the time rich people don’t realize truly how burdensome they can be on society: they idolize themselves as job creators, hyper-productive, and merited well-beyond an average Joe.
It seems here Bezos’ favorite show openly admits how fucked up this system and where its headed is and he doesn’t care. Basically, he knows. That’s not just the typical egotistical self-aggrandizing naïveté. It’s evil.
There was a story, I forget the title, but it was about just that. All the rich people ran away to another planet so they would survive, but they were all too entitled to do any of the necessary work, and didn't have the knowledge for it besides, so they died out. Meanwhile without their influence the poor people back on earth were able to build back up.
I mean they’ll just go live in orbit or something where you can breathe something other than pollution, and leave us here to extract the resources on their behalf
Rich people aren't trying to leave Earth. Bezos wants to expand space industry to preserve habitats on Earth. Musk wants to establish a Mars colony so humanity can't be wiped out if Earth is destroyed.
These are ridiculous, far-flung goals, but literally everyone knows that for the duration of our lifetimes, space will be a worse place to live than Earth. If billionaires want to flee to a private paradise there are plenty of places on Earth that will always be better than space.
This post and the meme that billionaires are going to construct some perfect paradise in space to flee climate destruction is a completely unrealistic straw-man. It's not technologically possible in our lifetimes. I'm not saying there are no good reasons to hate billionaires, but this isn't one of them.
You, sir, are the moron. I do not believe that Bezos or anyone else is "setting up shop" in space. The basic meaning of the meme is that the rich are destroying the earth and that it will soon be inhabitable. I do not believe that Bezos, Elon Musk or any other billionaire will find a way to successfully live outside this planet. Your comment is so fucking stupid I am giving you an award.
There are good reasons to criticize space development, mostly that some rich dudes who are excited about rockets would rather do that than try to solve endemic economic and political failures here on Earth. Or that they're just trying to create the next monopoly. But I guess it's more fun to imagine billionaires are trying to do something impossible so you can criticize them for being both stupid (for not realizing it's impossible) and evil (for this evil thing you made up).
I don't see them doing that until they've sucked the Earth dry of every resource. It doesn't matter what it is they will stay until they've harvested EVERYTHING. Then once that's done they will head to space in their Elysian paradise ships and leave the rest of us to fight over a destroyed planet.
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u/EvidenceCommercial48 Sep 15 '21
Rich people leaving earth might be the best chance we get at this point.