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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/musk-and-bezos-offer-humanity-a-grim-future-in-space-colonies/
>Musk and Bezos Offer Humanity a Grim Future in Space Colonies
>Privately owned space colonies are more likely to be totalitarian nightmares than libertarian utopias
>Musk and his companies don’t have the greatest track record following the law on Earth, which doesn’t speak well to how he would govern a Mars colony. His Martian employees can look forward to “burning the 3 A.M. oil, they won’t even leave the factory,” a regimen for which he has lauded Chinese workers;
This article by Matthew R. Francis is reminiscent of "Mars is a Hellhole", full of anti-human, anti-space, anti-work, anti-capitalist sentiment. Entertaining read