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A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy (allr.cat)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The first, and also the most futuristic techno-utopian one, is the colonisation of Mars. Elon Musk founded Space X in 2002 (Peter Thiel was the first outside investor) with the idea of re-founding humanity. It’s all there: the call to save humanity by turning it into a multi-planetary species, the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth, and the will to break with the established order. As you can read, half-hidden, on the terms and conditions page of the Starlink service owned by Space X:

The parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Sweet. Build the ship, cram all the nazi aristocrats in, and bon voyage. Let us know how "re-founding of humanity" goes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oh no, they will not go until a proper base is built. You don't expect them to actually do any physical work now do you? First get the slaves in, built a nice cozy home for the rich, and then, when the world has all the comforts they need they will move over.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They aren't gonna leave until it's untenable here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I bet they would drop something on us on the way out too. An asteroid or similar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

That'd track

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

They aren’t gonna leave until it’s untenable here for them.

Which, btw, i'm not sure about it. If you're a company and only thinking about profits, you don't care whether the old mine is maximally exploited. Even if it is still profitable, you'd rather change to a new mine because it's more profitable.