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i don't get this; private individuals being able to go to space on their own without a government feels like exactly the kind of world I wanna live in. The whole billionaire+space thing is one of the few things that makes me feel inspired for humanity. twitter.com/maxberger/stat

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Orbits are extremely valuable real estate. Until recently, they belonged to nobody, i.e. they belonged in common to all people of this planet; now, they belong to the corporation owners. They just stole them from us, from you and from me, from everybody. And it's not negligible.

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??? if you had a bunch of monkeys and then some monkeys went into a never-before-visited land and built some nests or whatever in it, would you be like "those damn monkeys just stole the new land from everyone else"?

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Yes, of course. And in particular, they stole it from the monkeys who may have come later. And of course, it applies to us hairless monkeys. “First arrived, first served” is not a good foundation to build a society.