Men and Women in Space

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Douglas May
>
> Again, you say those with high birth rates will grow and expand,
but
> growth and expansion in space will be difficult. The space
> settlements that expand the most will have to keep building more
> multi-billion dollar colonies over and over. This is fine as long
as
> they are guaranteed a financial return from their colony. But what
if
> the new colony can't generate a profit? what if it refuses to pay
> it's mother colony back? Planting a new settlement in space will
not
> be as easy as building a new apartment complex in the suburbs.
> Societies that rely on constantly breeding and building will end
up
> bankrupting themselves, and eventually will lack the resources to
> keep their colonies going. On Earth, that means poverty. In space,
it
> means extinction.
>
> doug
>
perhaps it will be that strangers pay up front (big mortgage) or you
do it for family - most people will go out on a limb for
chuildren/grandchildren and so on - how many people help their
children in life knowing that they may not get a financial return