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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      That's true But I could conceivably imagine the price of Star Wars being seriously deflated, like in terms of material considerations Star Wars is probably not $4 billion worth of content and making one man happy doesn't cause that much either Space costs are not so overblown

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    2. joegross‏Verified account @joegross Feb 18
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect

      ...do you mean inflated?

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    3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Feb 18
      Replying to @joegross @arthur_affect

      I'm saying Star Wars is capable of being deflated. i.e., it absolutely does not necessarily cost four billion dollars in material expenses at fair value to bring a movie into existence. It is UNnecessarily expensive compared to space investigation, which is NECESSARILY expensive

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @joegross

      Well sure But if you try to cut out the money people in our society generally spend for bullshit capitalist market reasons that's a tremendous amount of money, arguably almost all of it

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @joegross

      I guess if you mean the relevant thing isn't the amount of money spent (because the value of money is a highly cooked book) but the genuine underlying scarce resources (including human labor) - I mean measuring that is really hard but space is still a tiny chunk of that

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @joegross

      Like how much metal and manufacturing capacity and human ingenuity went into flooding the nation's car lots with PT cruisers during the disastrous fad in the mid-2000s

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    7. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @joegross

      well, sure, but we can still conceivably recycle old PT Cruisers into something less offensive shit we threw up into the sky just stays there

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @joegross

      That doesn't really matter The reason "recycling" is mostly a sham in the real world is that the Earth is pretty physically big and raw materials for the most part are much much less valuable/irreplaceable than energy (which the 2nd law of thermodynamics says you never get back)

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @joegross

      And even energy/fuel, which is the actual crisis we're fighting over these days, is itself in principle not all that scarce either (the sun blasts us with immense amounts of it every day) The real scarce resource is human effort and labor That's what Marx was all about

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @joegross

      And however inconsequential you may find the joy sparked by space stuff among space geeks, it's still totally dwarfed by the amount of human labor that goes into projects that never gave anyone any kind of joy at all (most of the military in peacetime)

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @joegross

      Or that, far from giving us net zero joy, created enormous amounts of suffering, misery and despair (the military in wartime)

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        1. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy Feb 18
          Replying to @arthur_affect @joegross

          I mean obviously I don't want there to be a military either but I don't see my TL constantly cooing over the military buying pointless new toys for themselves and at least the military, unlike NASA, has kept a few hapless little shits like me alive

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