Working as a janitor because you’ve contracted with another self-interested actor to exchange some of your time for the means to survive in an indifferent world

vs

Working as a janitor because you’re part of the Grand Project of human expansion into space and it needs janitors

— scientism (@mr_scientism) October 7, 2020

This is my philosophy, if I had to encapsulate it. Even if it isn’t this (I want it to be this), we simply must move beyond making money for other already-wealthy people to some sort of societal mission. It’s probably the only way we’ll survive long-term.

As to those who say this human expansion into space is impossible: the future is very long, and nothing about that violates the laws of physics. Many things that seem impossible just take a long time; there are many plateaus and many ways to eventually build other, higher plateaus.