Cheaper? Nobody will rent to people who don't have a current job due to COVID.

I've acknowledged it. You, for example, are just a figment of my imagination.

So you're saying white supremacists are Neanderthals?

You're talking about the Halliburton that relocated their corporate headquarters to Dubai in the Middle East, right?

According to the article, it isn't in a cycle.

Interesting, considering that everything Netflix recommends for me is something I think absolutely sucks.

I'm guessing that peeing into the gas tank isn't an option.

So if they region lock it so we can't use the (same, but) cheaper cartridges from Eastern Europe and Asia, can we region lock it so they can't use the cheaper workers from Easter Europe and Asia?

I was wondering why his weight loss strategy was relevant...

Settlements on Mars are not cost effective in the first place. Even having one is a stretch of the imagination, and they'd be too busy just trying to survive to be concerned with how quick and comfortable their visit to the next hellhole settlement over.

No, investors have gotten risk-adverse.

They aren't very cost effective for existing homes, but for new construction they can save you tons on money on heating and cooling, giving you up to a 5x multiplier for the energy you put in. All new construction should have them.

Money isn't actually something that has value in and of itself, it is an abstraction for something that has value. The actual value is on the work it represents and the value add that work creates. If money just sits there doing nothing and not producing more work, it is not a benefit to the system.

Capital is good when it is invested into more production. In the past, that was primary accomplished by the bank investing your savings or the stock market doing the same into companies expanding their production.

Much of the problem with modern capital is that instead of investing into more production, it is focusing on non-productive or anti-productive strategies - downsizing (anti-productive), stock buybacks (increases stock price but no investment into real wealth production), bubble speculation (gambling).

Frankly, the only sustainable way to colonize Mars is to terraform it. It's doable, if expensive, in only a few hundred years. Having colonies there beforehand, however, would be counterproductive since you'd likely need to bombard it with comets to up the volatiles.

Completely true. And all of the uninhabited area of Earth (Arctic Lands, Antarctica, Sahara and other deserts, Siberia, etc) is far, far nicer than Mars for humans to live in.