[ Building A Space Base, Part 2: How Much Money Would It Take?
The questions come to mind: Whose money? and Why? There isn’t anything in space that is worth the cost of getting it. ]
How about the cost of getting away FROM something horrible on earth, like planetary socialism..?
The higher the taxes and regulations, the more living on the harsh airless moon will look like virtual paradise...
Space will be colonized by Political Refugees....
government is a plague that humans carry with them. There is a large fraction who think that someone else owes them a living and government is the instrument that they use to extort what they falsely believe to be their due.