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Some handwavy logic there, both on why bubbles instead of terraforming and also why authoritarian control given bubbles.
It's not "handwavy logic". It called reasoning based on heuristics developed from many observations (ie wisdom). From what I've seen here now on Earth, large scale coordination of projects where the benefits end up mostly diffuse is effectively impossible, especially in the modern environment. Thus private ownership of scaled back projects, organized by corporate authoritarianism as we see for most businesses here no…
I think "handywavy logic" is now being generous.
What about widening your heuristics to consider all of human history and see how much more freedom, autonomy and large scale coordination we have in place compared to say... the dark ages, or earlier.