Submitted 9 months ago by nodimetotie@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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A bit a of a straw man here, I know. Inspired by the recent debates about the commercial use of space and how it makes scientists worried about pollution and environmental degradation
“but muh free market” mfrs when I break their kneecaps and their McInsurance doesn’t cover it:
Free market does not mean zero regulation…
No problem, I’ll start my own insurance company!
I assume you have tens of millions of dollars in capital
The market will regulate the market.
Promise!
You may own your floor boards yes – wooden planks, formed by countless strands of molecules, though which themselves consist of nothing but nuclei and electrons –
I, however, have aquired exclusive rights to all of the vast real estate found inbetween those puny particles and I shall develop it into trendy (read profitable) nano-lofts and studios.
Wall-E summed it up well.
Space mining asteroids will tickle down eventually
Breaking news a 9km asteroid has just hit the earth, experts war we may go extinct
Approx. 98 football fields, for the Americans
Denvil@lemmy.one 9 months ago
A free market self regulates for nothing but profit
ICastFist@programming.dev 9 months ago
And to kill competition, which helps with profit