>>11037335Cartels and corporations WILL lead the solar system colonization, it's already acted.
Nation states won't exist by the end of the century in the west (because it's basically nazism and a global federation off mutt people is the goal) and anyway they had their shots during the cold war.
Today the NASA is just diversity hire and soon to be retired boomers, any young guy who would have worked there on Apollo in the 60s would be working at SpaceX or Blue Origin or whatever today.
There is no more common racial and cultural identity to build a supersocial structure on so it's only natural people become affiliated to new ruling entities like corporations, think already how the Silicon Valley already has a grip on California, how they control and influence public discourse.
We're basically one federal bankruptcy away from going full cyberpunk and corporations becoming the new feudal lords.
The irony is that politics are too stupid to see it and break their monopolies either because they push their societal agenda (the left) or because muh S&P500 (the right).
