Isn't there only one registrar? Why don't we just start our own internet? Oh, they won't let us build the infrastructure or launch satellites? Let's get our own planet then! Problem solved.
Isn't there only one registrar?
no, but most of them are probably acting as an ideological cartel, same as many other sectors.
You're probably the south african superman if I had to guess.
Understand part of what makes industry possible is the wealth of free oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen in our atmosphere. Steel production? Requires water and oxygen in massive quantities. Manufacturing? Yep. Chemical industry? And on and on and on.
On a planet without an atmosphere, the entrepreneurs operating in such an environment, now have to factor in that cost. And because of how the supply/demand problem is best solved by many competing actors, thats gonna make it more difficult. The same people running the main enterprise, providing all the infrastructure to live there, are also gonna have to effectively be the government. And what that means is they'll be competing with themselves, which means, no matter HOW good they think they are, ultimately that comes down to ego, and ego is no substitute for market forces.
Probably building on a new planet is gonna require the governing authority to effectively offer charters to various subcompanies, keeping competition, limiting monopolization, and basically keeping the on-site economy running at max development/growth rate. And that will be necessary because once anything remotely viable is established, governments or enterprises enabled by governments, will seek to take over or leverage the existing authorities out of their position.
More broadly theres probably gonna have to be some sort of minimum commons, "the right to breathe" for example simply as a safety net against using essentials we take for granted on earth, as a political leverage tool.
Also, expect economic attacks, infiltration of said chartered companies to intentionally mismanage key sectors in order to breed popular dissatisfaction. Ideological subversion. Etc.
A mars position also makes a claim on the asteroid belt plausible.
Personally if I ran mars or the moon, once established, I'd slow walk helping earth gov build out its own space infratructure, and then knock a meteor into earth to collapse world economies and government. From there you can come in as the savior, and establish control from the old powers.
It'd be a two-fer. All the old governments are abominations anyway.
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