• porcupine@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    I just mean in the sense that their objective is a monopoly on free land and resource extraction. This being Musk, there’s probably a belief that if he’s successful, he’ll be able to exert some form of leverage over earth governments with this monopoly that he can’t already by being a mere billionaire.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      There’s probably a hard copy of Heinlein’s “Moon is a Harsh Mistress” on his bookshelf that he never actually read beyond the dust cover.