cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/43972162

I’m guessing;

  • space flight so cheap that a normal person could buy and use a space vehicle for less than the cost of a house
  • space freight
  • halendosEnglish
    3·
    22 hours ago

    I think some kind of stealth technology. Not gonna do much pirating if they can “see” you coming days / weeks in advance, space is big and mostly empty. Either that or so much traffic that you can blend in.

      • AA5BEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        Same deal: is it realistic to expect space travel to be so cheap and plentiful, while not highly automated, that we would ever develop an underclass?

        Sure it’s easy to see the corporate oligarchy part, where companies become ever more powerful royalty. But when it only takes a few specialists, you’re going to be highly trained and compensated. No underclass.

        I think of it like current software engineers. We’re nothing to the corporate royalty, and are definitely exploited. But we’re also paid more, treated better, more specialized, than many individuals. There’s just not going to be an underclass there