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Science fiction already covered why you don't want 'Libertarian' billionaire types running your mars colony, so of course valley billionaires want to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8lT-Sn-HqE

Just another instance of the Torment Nexus meme and valley sensibilities.

I remember when I admired these people and we didn't have civilizational wide meme's about how evil they are. Sad how things turned out. If only it could have been different. But that would require, you know, basic human compassion when instead they could just build bunkers and distant Hawaiian island escape compounds. And we can't blame them really, it's in their nature. They can't resist taking the wrong lesson from science fiction dystopias and they played Fallout.




Your post reminds me of the song Rät by Penelope Scott




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