So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

Presumably these people watched everything from Alien right up to The Expanse, looked at all that exploitation or corporatised space and went That Looks Great! SpaceX has always been something of a deep conflict for me, being the total space nerd: on the one hand there's no question, Musk's company was transformative & opened up and revolutionised space travel - but he's also part of a privatisation surge where the natural end-point appears to be a real life Weyland-Yutani, bar the bioweapon department.

There's a big, messy and potentially dangerous issue of Rule of Law once anything resembling an off-planet colony becomes real, and like most things in life the law will lag behind human expansion. Certainly modern science fiction literature like The Expanse (or other novels like Ian McDonald's excellent Luna series, or Andy Weir's less excellent Artemis) can see the pitfalls quite clearly once humanity leaves the convenience of the gravity well and safety nets of codified institutions.

Total segue on my part, but this idea of a Muskian colony being some libertarian utopia of "hard workers only, no lefties please" is so laughable as to be plan naive. Well, unless you just don't believe in anything resembling basic worker / human rights, but that's another matter.

Good stuff so you've nothing useful to contribute, just fictional snark. Bare in mind I tried to at least speak genuinely of Martian colonies, and historical precedent of worker struggles and how they might shape future exploration; you're the one banging the drum about nothing remotely realistic - or indeed brought up by me.

And some here have the cheek to call the Musk-cynical crowd as obsessed? Give me a break.

Again just empty snark. You seem to think the concepts of Shifts don't exist?

By all accounts, you go and show me examples of the ISS crew working excessively long shifts beyond mental endurance as a policy, and I'll take your point. I'll wait.

I'm not talking rocket science here you know, but basic and sensible worker's rights circa the start of the 20th century. You're the one who went on a tangent about blue hair. This segue is your nonsense.