Massive wealth redistribution, the wealthy are hoarding money and buying assets, like housing and making them unaffordable for the rest.

I don't blame them, doesn't make them bad, greed is a natural force we have to manage.

I find it remarkable that poor people defend billionaires that make them poorer.

Any wealth is a product of the societies it was made in.

The billionaires need us, we don't need them.

Not a problem.

Less bullshit jobs, shysters, parasites and degenerate gamblers is a good thing.

Though sadly they will probably be the one's left after the cull.

I don't believe his baby makers are going for his looks and personality.

What was it about the world's richest man you found attractive?

He definitely looks like a sketchy bag genetically. Anyone for ketamine?

Guess mine is a philosophical point. We're not moving everyone, we're giving our descendants a chance. Then that's probably my DNA speaking, self replicating in every cell.

In relation to demographics, I don't remember thinking like this before I was a dad.

What if we were the only life in the universe? Are we worth saving? Our ancestors believed earth was the centre of the universe. Maybe that was an intuition.

And that's the plot for Alien Covenant. lol. Leave bad David behind. Take the good one.

Sun EOL is good enough. It might be super far in the future, but it might take that long for us to be an interstellar species.

In that time there are plenty of opportunities for asteroids, pandemics, societal collapses, wars. There might be a lot of us atm, but we're relatively fragile.

The other aspect of a Mars colony, dare I say, is spiritual, we've always migrated. We love quests, they are something we get inspired by and rally around. We could do with some unity and hope for the future.

It's also another line for innovation. Space is a hard place to live, adapting to it, might give us tech and practice that will help us survive our own climate challenge : living underground, optimise food production, recycling, energy. Would be nice to not have to learn all that and just look after Earth, but given we appear to be mostly tribal scared chimps ruled by psychos for the last 10,000 years, I cant see that happening anytime soon.

Being able to live on Mars is the cool target. Our descendants need that. Doomsday is just around the corner on the cosmic clock.

They are good at warfare's hostile environment. They are good in space.

We've done amazing things with Voyager, with planning and engineering. Comms is hard, but maybe we can fix that with something like starlink, launch a bunch of small signal repeaters in between, or do something quantum ....

AI is coming on, we've got plenty of physically similar environments undersea to start training survey, mining and tunnelling bots.

Why we invest so much in human like robots eludes me. We can make human shaped things for earth very easily, thanks to Momma nature.

Something built for low g doesn't have to look like a human, that's a form evolved for this environment, it doesn't work well in space, what does? Why do the drones have to use wheels to get about , how about floating them like an airship that can hunker down in bad weather?

Who or what is the protagonist in the story?

I accept a Bhuddist truth that life contains an element of suffering and we spend a lot of resource trying to manage that unskilfully, not recognising the pain that comes from our perception.

My hope is we will see a movement emerge to counter point "get rich or kill the planet trying". Part of this is a "less is more" philosophy that we don't need gold bath taps, but we could do with more time to look after our physical and mental wellbeing, preparing for our death by living our best life. If we can reduce material consumption, learn to become more self reliant for our happiness, that's good preparation for a space faring race where resources will always be limited and psychological resilience is essential.

Somewhere in there is the rejection of wealthy kings, recognising that one of the features of the oligarchy is their single minded greed. Greed and the greedy are a rubbish things to be ruled by, they only serve themselves, like a cancer, infecting us with their greed as we try to emulate their comfort. Capitalism has won and is eating freedom and democracy. It would be an offence to the human spirit to not reject that destiny.

Where does this quiet revolution begin? I suspect it already has in the "lying down" movement in China, our online interest in well being psychology, neuroscience, consciousness, philosophy that shine a light on how we suffer in our internal worlds. Lower productivity and a growing welfare bill signal a rejection of being a rent slave to service capital.

Soon the boomers will die out and China's working population will collapse from old age. The world is going to be very different.

It's very likely history will repeat itself and the oligarchy and corporations emerge as the new states, but history did not have social media, for all the moral faults in it's business model it is the place for individualism.

He's a sociopath. Obvious Bond villain. 007 already.

Our collective greed and selfish behaviours.

In a perversion of survival instinct and Darwinism the humans ate their world and died. The end.

It's the story 'You cant have it all because you'd still want more' and not knowing what 'enough' or 'happy' looked like.

The eagle and lander pattern worked.

From a commercial perspective, specialising in interplanetary travel or surface exploration feels more efficient. There is not much intersection between those subjects, integration of course.

I think the taxi companies missed the trick. Uber is just handy, it generally works.

Taxi firms could get together and do the same, or someone could offer it to them, then they have the convenience and the safety.

I don't like Uber either, they are grifting parasites.

When you are a business owner, maybe you might consider the advantages of slave labour. Many have in the past. British plantation owners were capitalists too, our government only recently stopped paying them for their loss of "capital" when they were made to free their slaves. Today there are places in the world where immigrant workers passports are seized as leverage to make them work for little, with no rights in dangerous conditions. We call it modern day slavery, the chains look different, but they are still chains.

No, but consider beyond your business, bigger picture. Capital wants labour price to be low, lower cost == greater profit. Profit is all capital cares about, that's it's nature. The affect of capital driving down wages means there is less money in the economy to buy goods and services, less money for taxes to pay for roads, street lights, police force etc.. As capital gets wealthier, it starts buying assets too, like property to rent, driving up the price for everyone and killing individual aspiration of home ownership.

Sound good to you? It's a bit more complex than capitalism vs. socualism. That's binary, primitive, lazy thinking. I suspect the answer is in the middle.

Feeling lonely Jock? You could try a constructive comment rather than being a dick. You are very good at being a dick already, maybe you don't need to practice?