Mar 16, 2021
7 min read
The Profit Motive Drove Us to the New World but It Can’t Drive Us to Colonize Space
The economics of space colonization
The inner solar system is home to virtually unlimited resources, but they cannot benefit us here on Earth. An influx of precious and rare-Earth metals into the world markets will collapse prices down to a fraction. With the astronomical cost of extracting them, the…
