WoodScientist already hit a bunch of relevant points, to which I’ll add:
Spaceflight requires immense amounts of money and capital.
So… it’ll only ever be meaningfully done by either nationstates or megacorps, likely both in collab, and likely necessarily is part of the MIC in a very major way.
That means that without massive societal/political/governance reform… you end up with Weyland-Yutani, but with the quality control of Boeing and SpaceX.
Not ideal, arguably guaranteed to be so massively long run inefficient, and dependant on an extreme wealth imbalanced underlying economy/society… that it ends up functionally destroying Earth via climate change / nuclear apocalypse, and if any spaceborne humanity remains… they’re the Enclave from Fallout, basically.
WoodScientist already hit a bunch of relevant points, to which I’ll add:
Spaceflight requires immense amounts of money and capital.
So… it’ll only ever be meaningfully done by either nationstates or megacorps, likely both in collab, and likely necessarily is part of the MIC in a very major way.
That means that without massive societal/political/governance reform… you end up with Weyland-Yutani, but with the quality control of Boeing and SpaceX.
Not ideal, arguably guaranteed to be so massively long run inefficient, and dependant on an extreme wealth imbalanced underlying economy/society… that it ends up functionally destroying Earth via climate change / nuclear apocalypse, and if any spaceborne humanity remains… they’re the Enclave from Fallout, basically.