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Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

Just to be clear, there is NO SIGNS this investment is ever going to pan out. This is going to be the most predictable economic collapse in human history while potentially being the most devastating with the leaders we have.

In other words, once that money is spent, it stays spent. It doesn't turn into something useful later like investing in, I dunno, railroad lines would. They're just putting resources in a rocket and shooting them off into space

At least we can recycle the raw materials. Musk’s dipshit plan for orbital data centers (lmao) involves atomizing the decommissioned wreckage over the ocean.

I wonder what the impact of that on ocean ecology would be

Effectively zero. The ocean is very, VERY big. 48-ish tons of vaporized meteor debris falls onto the earth per day. The fallout from one coal plant or agricultural runoff from a medium town probably has several orders of magnitude more ecological impact.