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lobosrul t1_j25w0y7 wrote

Reply to comment by lamina1211 in If SpaceX is the only company to land on mars for years, can they lay claim to the land? by --Lavish--

Lets say SpaceX lands on Mars and Elon claims Mars as "his". Neither the United States nor any other government has the means to do a damned thing about if we don't have the means to get to Mars ourselves! That means Mars is now corporate owned!

Oh..... but wait a minute. SpaceX is a US based company and is subject to US law. We can't directly touch their colony on Mars but we can make it impossible for SpaceX to communicate, profit from, or resupply said Martian colony.

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lamina1211 t1_j25xmns wrote

The US government could do alot of things. But we're reaching a point where transnationalism is a thing (or have reached that point). Some corporations can now, and will in the future, operate with limited government influence, as those corporations have more leverage against government than government has against them.

What percentage of SpaceX revenue is currently provided by the US DoD? Can the DoD currently replace the services SpaceX provides?

Now fast forward a decade or two and run the math again.

Human systems of governance aren't well equipped currently to manage multinational corporations with GDPs that would put them in the G20, nevermind multiplanetary corporations with G7 level economic influence.

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