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The first he pays lip-service to (we haven't seen an evidence for or against outside of his desire to bully people into silence), but doesn't his plan to make the human race multi-planetary involve bringing back indentured servitude?

Am I missing something? Indentured Servitude?

Yeah, if you can't afford to go to Mars, just take out a loan and then pay it off by working for him[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/Kristennetten/status/1217992009794740224?

Which is hilarious, because this has been part of basically every fictional dystopian sci fi universe ever. What other warnings has Musk confused with good ideas?

Nueralink is 100% dystopian fodder - think Severance (2022) or any body-snatching story ever told, and a few new ones ("Our app is Uber, but for privately borrowing bodies").

Is transmitting qualia too far fetched? Maybe, but how about lightly buzzing the brains pleasure centers when employee is at work to improve esprit de corps?

Even dial it back a notch from that. "We can't help but notice you're having negative thoughts about the company. You're being put on a Though Improvement Initiative."

The two of you don't understand what indentured servitude is. Having your choice of jobs is not indentured servitude. It's literally just a loan. Indentured servitude is when you're essentially property of the person who gave you the loan.

by ya'lls definition of Indent. Serv. any loan at all is equivalent to Ind.Servitude because you have to pay it back.

Musk doesn't think his cities on Mars will have to follow any Earth based laws or concept of rights. https://nypost.com/2020/10/30/elon-musks-spacex-colony-on-ma...

NyPost first of all....

Second of all, It's not 'his cities'.

The goal is hundreds of thousands of people in those cities and they will form their own government just like they have on earth.

Not if he populates the cities with Tesla Compliance-Cop Model S's to enforce his vision!

Harder to do when they don't control the water/food/oxygen/ships supplying said cities.

Because you'll be able to just leave Mars whenever you want, right? You won't be living in homes he controls and working in jobs he created?

That's not what free speech means.

Multiplanetary? Really? We'll all be so far dead by then...

Not restricting speech.

> Not what free speech means?

Multiplanetary? Really? We'll all be so far dead by then...

> Asshole for trying?

Trying what exactly? We're literally killing our planet and instead of doing what we should do to save it, we praise some rich asshole for building a rocket? Why?

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