Bankruptcy laws exist for a reason. Debtor prisons do not work. Enabling people to start over again after a personal financial collapse is important for getting people to take on risk. It does not make sense to cover bankruptcy for ordinary business failures or career meltdowns while not covering education. Education overall has less risk, pays off better, but is inherently risky because of the ages of those making decisions. Bankruptcy is bankruptcy whether student loans are part of the mix or not. Comparisons to bank bailouts don't really make sense because the scale and the risks are so different. There is no broke student equivalent of a bank run, for example.

Government development of space is holding back commercial development. The time for initial investment has ended now that we know the basics. This article is full of good examples of this. The robot mower highlighted here is already being provided by the marketplace. Private ventures are preparing more forward thinking launch vehicles than the big rocket talked about in the article. There is always going to be some role or collective action, but government is no longer needed as the primary driver.

It is critically important to keep markets on Earth functioning in order to extend ourselves into space. The idea that we can have our economic activities melt down in chaos while reaching for our future in the stars is questionable. Some of the same people here who want more space development also pushed an ideologically driven view of economic activity which played a big part in this global financial implosion.

Our super technology has become our own undoing.

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