The trip to Mars will be similarly expensive to a trip to the New World back in the day. I can imagine history rhyming with something akin to indentured servitude. Especially if the rockets and resources on Mars are owned by billionaires like Musk.
laranis@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Only problem with this theory is there is no native population to exploit. Colonialism/empirism fails when you can’t subjugate anyone.
melfie@lemy.lol 1 day ago
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 day ago
China has enough subjugated people at home, they will just bring someone to feel superior to
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
But the US didn’t really have any natives to exploit either, they basically genocided them. The exploitation was mostly done with enslaved Africans who they kidnapped and trafficked to the Americas.
So all they need to do is just bring over a population to exploit.
(Which I’m not saying is in anyway okay btw, fuck slavery.)
Objection@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
They did enslave indigenous people, they just found it harder to do. They knew the land, and if they escaped they’d just have to make it back to their own communities.
The very first ship that returned to Europe from America had native slaves.
Stupendous@lemmy.world 1 day ago
By the time of the US, it was genocide after genocide. But before that when we called Americans different sorts of European, it was genocide and forced labor/slavery/some becoming human zoo enhibit