Reply To: Space Fountain

[zapkitty]

Brian H wrote: Lots of agreements and disagreements…

Problem with that rosy, almost Randian future: what’s to keep the elites from seizing it and maintaining their current rule?

Unions arose from those willing to fight abusive plutocrats and union members gained a living wage and livable working conditions from that struggle; not only for their members but for other workers as well. And yet today the union leadership has been corrupted and co-opted from the inside out by the very forces they originally arose against… as has government, the media and most everything else in public discourse.

Who now will fight an entrenched plutocracy that is not only vested in the status quo but is intent on regressing matters as far and as fast as they can? They are currently aiming for broken governments and an unending recession as the new status quo… quite relaxed and profitable for them, not so much so for the un-elite.

In short: we’ve seen what thirty-plus years of the “trickle-down” BS brings and trickle-down fusion won’t fare any better.