>>14205476Financial Incentives. Why is every non-covid or IQ thread on /sci/ always really just an economics question? There isn't enough of a financial incentive to develop outerspace travel. If you are a Blackstone and you own millions of houses, there is not much of an incentive in undercutting your own assets by investing in hive cities.
It's financial incentives. Every fucking time.
>People in the 80sWhich people? You mean journalists and grifters who got airtime and built careers on their superlative predictions. Show me the people who predicted this, show me the exact nature of their predictions and how much vigor and time they spent broadcasting those.
