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There's nothing we realistically can do given our powerlessness. If we'd been made dictators* and were trying write up rules to prevent all this nonsense, I've got a few ideas... There are two goals, removing the necessity to convert capitalism into subscription neofeudalism... Civilization...

That's what subscription service feudalism is for. Instead of actually making new products, costing money and requiring resources, just rent existing ones. This also gives the owner class of society total control since they can cut anyone else off.

They're not targeting usage of resources by goverments and the wealthy, but by everyone who isn't politically connected and/or rich.

They’ve already been doing this. Asteroid mining and powersats have been theoretically economically competitive since the Cold War space race, but we’re only seeing the likes of spacex and amazon showing up and progressing now, as automation technologies near the necessary sophistication.

Reminds me of Resilient Accelerationism over on Nationstates, who's been playing essentially the society the Schwabs of the world want and been getting loads of controversy over whether this is great roleplaying or an unrealistic cliché villain. ...only somehow, the actual sociopathic...