Setting up base stations and manufacturing in space are the first steps to a post scarcity world where energy and materials are so abundant that many of these major issues we see today will be solved outright, and that will allow time and resources to be diverted to those other issues that can't be solved just by throwing energy and money at them.
HOLYxFAMINE t1_ixe8078 wrote
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Setting up base stations and manufacturing in space are the first steps to a post scarcity world where energy and materials are so abundant that many of these major issues we see today will be solved outright, and that will allow time and resources to be diverted to those other issues that can't be solved just by throwing energy and money at them.