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    3 months ago

    If they’re functional, and we get serious about space or birth control, then no it’s not a problem. But that is another path we can take to really juice the dystopia.

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      3 months ago

      It will take a very long time indeed before we can reach another habitable planet enough to alleviate an exponentially growing population, and forced birth control will be unpopular, not to mention probably employed as eugenics by those in power against those who aren’t.

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        3 months ago

        There’s always orbital habitats. They ramp up a lot quicker than even a Mars colony.

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          3 months ago

          Not the way I’d want to spend the rest of my life, that’s for sure.

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            3 months ago

            Eh, it would be worth it with the right recreational activities up there and knowing we weren’t setting up altered carbon.

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              3 months ago

              You’d have zero control over your existence. Someone else would own that station and you’d exist entirely at their whim. They would decide if you get food, air, water, shelter. No real access to nature. I’d rather die.

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                  2 months ago

                  You’re not renting air and water. You have a market of options to choose from. None of those things will be true in space.

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                    2 months ago

                    Air yeah, water though. We absolutely rent water. My point though is that we’re already used to paying a monthly sum to exist.