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Cheese Sandwich

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4. Got it. Only corporate capitalism can save humanity by owning and mining asteroids for profit.

Reply to Agnosticsherbet (Reply #3)

Thu Nov 26, 2015, 11:33 AM

Nov 2015

We're lucky that the capitalists goal of getting rich lines up perfectly with what we need so badly.

We need to privatize asteroids so the 1% can launch off to their moon colonies while the rest of us die a slow painful death from global warming/nuclear holocaust/bird flu epidemic.

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President Obama signs bill recognizing asteroid resource property rights into law [View all] Cheese Sandwich Nov 2015 OP

Ultimately, that will be good for the future of humanity. nt Agnosticsherbet Nov 2015 #1

I was thinking asteroids should be treated as a public resource Cheese Sandwich Nov 2015 #2

Their resources will be critical to humanities future. Agnosticsherbet Nov 2015 #3

Got it. Only corporate capitalism can save humanity by owning and mining asteroids for profit. Cheese Sandwich Nov 2015 #4

of course not, but national governments do not appear inclined Agnosticsherbet Nov 2015 #5

Maybe the mining companies are the government and the government is just like their press office Cheese Sandwich Nov 2015 #7

happy thanksgiving. yes I do. Agnosticsherbet Nov 2015 #8

They sell air in NYC - TBF Nov 2015 #6

They don't sell air - they sell "air rights" nt LiberalElite Nov 2015 #10

They can't just give air away for free. People would take advantage and breath all the time. Cheese Sandwich Nov 2015 #11

Right? TBF Nov 2015 #12

I wonder if this will conflict with the 1967 Treaty on Outer Space..... lastlib Nov 2015 #9

and if you find a genie's lamp you get to keep all the wishes! MisterP Nov 2015 #13