Yeah, that’s exactly my concern. While we’re all day-dreaming about (impossible) science fiction, the planet we actually have is collapsing. It strikes me as a dangerous palliative to even talk about it.
So yeah, is what Elon is doing better than what the Koch Brothers are doing? Obviously. But is that even the conversation we should be having? Why accept that we have to have billionaires in the first place?
Precisely what we, the citizens of a democracy, should be talking about and fighting for, not simply rolling over and accepting that it “is not going to happen.”
Why is it easier for us to imagine a fricken’ mars colony than a functional public transit system?