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Even if the fully modular products existed in any remotely sufficient quantity in all areas, new parts from new resources would still be needed to be made, because no amount of bullshit will make metal fatigue, friction damage, thermal expansion cycles and so on stop damaging things, nevermind...

But many of the rich need their businesses to extract resources to make things to sell to those not politically connected/rich, and no matter how you spin it the tax will impact the whole market..

Just their dreams. That's why the leaders are beating around the bush when it comes to the pretty much only economically valuable part of this powergrab. Once they stop, what France used to do with Greenpeace will be nothing when compared to what some other countries will do to the international...

So communism it is, except with the current rich instead of the revolutionaries and officers becoming the new elite. After all "walkable cities with everyone riding bicycles" are something North Korea 90's PRC are most famous for. They do it on a scale even most progressive in these regards...

Blame them on climate change and use them as fodder for green propaganda, obviously.

But it's not design itself that takes most of the resource and energy inputs. It's making the stuff in scale of millions, moving it, and operating it. But then again, greens love their science fiction, think that somehow the world is obliged to follow it with all its ideological bends. Digital...

And the correct answer to that is, so what? Who made them the bankers of nature's secret account that no one else can see, so trust me bro it really exists and i'm the one with the numbers? Is this a reaction to not enough people sending money to Nigerian princes anymore? I thought shamans...

Ditto for you. You are trying to convince me that space colonies will be able to settle somewhere out there, supply themselves and export resources with commercially viable spacelift and make a profit while doing so, declare independence, but somehow the technologies that allow all this to be...

No, don't shift it to silly rhetorical battles. It's not "they might have a sufficient mass and delta v budget". It's "if the technological-economical situation allows such colonies, then any government willing to pay for it *will* have sufficient mass and delta v budget". It will be just a...

They absolutely can, it's only a matter of sufficient mass and delta v budget. There are plenty of resources in and under the sea. Extracting them is expensive and technologically complex though. Just as it is in space, hence the oil rig comparison. By the time we have space colonies, we will...

Note that the same pricing applies to its vital supplies and products. If you can move those affordably, the same applies to military forces. The difference is that in 13 colonies there was plenty of free real estate that many, many people could live in, cheaper than in the Old World even. Just...

No, technology is the showstopper for now and it's going to be very hard to change that, while everyone has their own grifts and pet projects that are not hard, they are guaranteed to make money for the right people even if they suck. For resources, and twice as badly for major colonies, this...

Worse. Seen that Rifkin quote? This shit is why they also oppose nuclear power. Much like the socialists in government that they are natural allies with, they want the citizens/serfs to live in poverty, so that they are in desperate need of favors from the government and for corporate leaders...

And ot already is one of early sign of what a shitshow of a recipe for a great future this is - after all, it's specifically the people currently living the closest to the watermelon accepted lifestyle who are hit with the food insecurity, not the westerners with their evil carbon footprints.

It's a new ascetism for a new cult, which aren't really different from old ascetisms and cults, just a new skin for the old. And the skin is just a slightly edited over skin copied from history books, worshipping nature\the planet is not an original idea at all. It's biggest achievement is that...

This is essentially watermelon science fiction economy. Of course it's going to do nonsensical things and bankrupt itself as such if ever tried, because it's made to appeal to watermelon sensibilities above following the market. Also Rifkin is a massive watermelon infamous for comments that...

It would still have humongous effects on human society, with effective fantasy elf like lifespans and all the implications of it. Sure, people performing dangerous jobs, dangerous hobbies, or just with a habit of doing stupid shit for no reason at all may not get to benefit much from it, but in...

The thing is, do the politicians, well connected people, the tech millionaires, and any other people who truly have a say in how things are ran live in the areas that need poop patrol, or in gated communities where such a thing is unthinkable?

Does it? Or is it merely an illusion that makes SF look more controlled by leftists (that's who generates all the crazy news), while only the less important parts of city and administration are where they run amok, as the crazies celebrate that power, meanwhile in the important parts business of...

The green sections of it are definitely leftist. The global governance talk is inherently leftist. There's points about LGBTI, "gender parity", "systemic racism" and "human rights" thrown into graphics like this, you can bet those are culturally leftist. The rest is new tech buzzword salad...