Sorry, Earth is only for billionaires now. Proles get to live in space tubes.
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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While spending 75% of their earnings on a rent and the rest 25% on various subscriptions to continue functioning and enriching the multi trillion dollar corporations.
You will own nothing and be happy.
Imagine a world where AI helps 1 trillion people live in some sort of space station. Food is grown by AI, repairs/jobs are done by AI. All you can do is to chill & relax.
Yeah, I can't imagine that too...
Our inability to increase the wealth of the elite will render us useless and therefor our ability to continue existing will end well before any of that happens
I assume we would be considered "homeless" then :)
This motherfucker mailed me the same blu-ray box set smashed to shards twice in a row before he finally put the third copy into some goddamn bubble wrap, and he wants me to trust his space station with my life!?
Says the guy who works his people so bad they have to pee in water bottles.
Bezos needs to put himself in one of Elon's cylinders to go see outer space.
Preferably stay there if he makes it. He could defenetly live there if we send some battle racions sometimes
What do you think the people will be doing in his space cans?
I like how they believe in these systems working yet the couldn't handle the fact that many jobs can be done remotely..
You will commute from your home space cylinder complex to the office cubicle space cylinder complex. There is no other way the system works.
Power tripping CEO's be like
Oh no
So this is why Prime Video cancelled The Expanse... Don't want those future Belters getting any ideas.
Taki, beratna!
"Go slave your life away in my terrible space cans."
More like Jeff Bozos, am I right?
Sounds awful
Ignore wealth inequality, huff my farts. —Bezos
…as my pets.
The year is 0079....
Sooo why would shareholders want to spend any potential profit on just having humans?
What value do they bring?
This is why we can't have nice things!
It was the dawn of the 3rd age of human kind...
In one age, called the third age by some, a windbag rose in the west. This windbag was not the first, nor would he be the last. There are no first or last windbags in the wheel of bullshit, but he was A windbag.
I’m more afraid of the world billionaires have made for us. I’ll take my chances with the AI.
Yes, because it's people like you and me developing AI ...
Okay, so the the Cylindrical Space Stations actually are a viable Method of living in space. However, I think people are less worried about AI as they should be.
How are you supposed to have agriculture in a giant tin can in space?
On the interior surface of the can. The can is big enough to have a functional gradient for things like agriculture.
Yeah but happily and healthily? And for how long? And what about all the studies showing the rapid degeneration of bone density and immune functions when in space?
That spaceship stuff is science FICTION for a reason.
So an O'Neil cylinder exploits rotation to simulate gravity. When set up properly it feels just like gravity we're used to here on earth. That should at least help curb the effects of microgravity. Radiation shouldn't be much of a problem as people would be living on the inside of the cylinder with meters of material between them and outer space.
And who’s paying to put all those gazillion bazillions of cubic tonnes of radiation shielding into space?
Not trying to defend Jeff here, but generally these kind of space megaprojects rely on manufacturing materials in space. I.e. capture an asteroid and use its material as the radiation shielding. Not that that's currently anywhere near feasible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah I read lots of sci-fi as a kid too. We’d be there by now except physics is a cruel and unyielding mistress.
dude spent years to barely get to leo. uh, i mean 'space'.... im spose to care what he says about something will never even be planned in his lifetime??
Sounds great as long as capitalism and billionaires are eliminated. People like Bezos and the systems that enable them are the biggest threat to a better future nya >.<