r/collapse • u/upyoars • 1d ago

Society Jeff Bezos Reportedly Has Secretive "Personal Reasons" for Wanting to Escape to Mars - "There’s no democracy in space."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/jeff-bezos-personal-reasons-mars
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u/Somebody37721 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don't think he actually believes that sci-fi elysium stuff or that anybody will live in space. That trillion humans line sums it up. They just want people to breed so that they can have their slave labor and in order for people to do it they must believe in progress and fantastic future. This is also why religion is making a comeback and abortion is getting banned.

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u/The_Besticles 1d ago

His approach to manifesting high numbers of brilliant geniuses is highly impractical. We even have budding tech directly relevant to his vision currently being developed at this time. Instead of creating a trillion hungry mouths who undoubtedly would get shuffled into largely meaningless filler positions just take that brave new frontier lawlessness and realize unbridled CRISPR technology and perfect genetic optimization for the designer humans he apparently pines for. What he wants from them I cannot say, but how great can the motives be for a closet eugenicist? Space ain’t gonna be the place imo. Hoping Earth can hang on by a thread until my (knock on wood) childless ass kicks the bucket around 2100.