lionkoy5555@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-213 days agoWe're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth.fediscience.orgexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up11.01Karrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1995arrow-down1external-linkWe're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth.fediscience.orglionkoy5555@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-213 days agomessage-square60fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFree_Opinions@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·12 days agoIt’s private wealth, not government funding. They’re free to use their wealth how ever they see fit as long as it’s legal. Ad-hominem is not argument to the contrary either.
minus-squareCatoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·12 days agoGreat argument for and example of how the US government isn’t taxing wealth nearly enough, if we have homeless people and billionaires funding sci fi fantasies for their own amusement in the same country.
minus-squareFree_Opinions@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 days agoAsteroid impact can solve homelesness too. I still think populating other planets is a worthy cause. We should do that while taxing the billionaires more.
It’s private wealth, not government funding. They’re free to use their wealth how ever they see fit as long as it’s legal.
Ad-hominem is not argument to the contrary either.
Great argument for and example of how the US government isn’t taxing wealth nearly enough, if we have homeless people and billionaires funding sci fi fantasies for their own amusement in the same country.
Asteroid impact can solve homelesness too.
I still think populating other planets is a worthy cause. We should do that while taxing the billionaires more.