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This is a normal post Without trying to insult you,
your grasp of economics appears to be worthlessly limited if you don't understand the very first thing about money (that we made it up).
(, Wed 13 Jul 2022, 14:36, Reply)
This is a normal post There is literally not enough money in the world to construct a vessel on the scale we're talking about.
The sheer size of workforce required (fabricators, engineers, scientists, caterers, janitors, etc) would either require just about every employee to work for a fraction of the wage they are accustomed to (good luck with that) or flooding the economy with extra cash, significantly lowering its value and basically ending up at the same point where workers are earning significantly lower equivalent wage for the same work.
And we havent even started to consider the economic and social ramifications of taking this mammoth workforce away from their day jobs.

Your grasp of economics seems tentative because you seem to assume that because money is some evil capitalist construct, that it's irrelevant. That is hardly the case.
Perhaps if we ever achieve the kind of human utopia described in TNG where money and wealth truly are no longer relevant, you might have a point. But I suspect we're even further than that than we are from ab O'Neill Cylinder.
(, Wed 13 Jul 2022, 18:31, Reply)
This is a normal post I invite you to read up on asteroid mining and then have another go at thinking about this.
*Clue*
Very few people would have a hand in building this stuff, and it's not going to be built at the bottom of a gravity well.
(, Wed 13 Jul 2022, 20:56, Reply)
This is a normal post I don’t think he was objecting to that part
I suspect he was objecting to your ascribed purpose for inventing it.

On account of it being complete bollocks.
(, Wed 13 Jul 2022, 18:38, Reply)
This is a normal post Complete?

(, Wed 13 Jul 2022, 20:55, Reply)
This is a normal post Complete.

(, Thu 14 Jul 2022, 15:14, Reply)