He's permitted an entire subculture of optimism built around a counter-ethos that I'm not sure *could* exist without a figure like him. There'd still be scattered individuals finding their way to that thing, but I'm not sure they'd have any Schelling points for finding each other
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It's not super intuitive, but one thing he's making salient is that humanity may want things that it must get wealthier & more creative to have. You don't redistribute your way to a Mars colony. You must come up w/ ways to make things easier *here* to mainstream life out *there*
This isn't to say there's not a role for redistribution in any functioning economic system, only that an aspirational society MUST continue to generate better ideas & ways of doing things in order to do truly interesting things that let you touch the ceiling on Maslow's hierarchy
