economic impetus

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Matt Gallimore wrote:
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> From: sraj
> "Why not sell homes in O'Neil type habitats."
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> With current economics for space access, few people could afford the accomodations.
but, one million peeps all who have the same ideals could prolly afford one.

So you sell the whole thing as a micronation and you look for political groups and cultural movements to sell to.

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> Another issue is project timeline and financing. A company pursuing just the hab construction as a real estate venture would run out of money long before construction is finished.
depends on how much they had to start. but yeah, gotta work up to it slowly.

I don't know of any company on earth that could finance much beyond the construction shack. Without other economic activity alongside this, (SPS or other product / service) is therejustification for the vast, vast sums of money needed for building the habs as a stand-alone venture?

yes, economic singularity.

with enough self replicating bots in the asteroids anything can be manufactured, and economics as we know it reverses.