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Ah, but a Lunar or Martian colony provides the perfect opportunity for a billionaire to set up his pet dystopia in a place where everyone is dependent upon him for the essentials of life and can't leave.

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You're absolutely right, everyone living there would be living in what's essentially a really terrible company town. One where your boss has direct control over your oxygen supply.

I'm really not sure why anyone thinks space colonies are a good idea

Space colonies are the worst idea possible until they’re not. And that on a very large timescale, having that humans survive that long. For now it’s absolutely pointless to think we could pull it off. It’s still a good subject to explore in the Scifi genre

Kinda like our situation here on Earth with all of our corrupt politicians and their tall tales of democracy, our most sacred institution.

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