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Re:The First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility in the US Op... by sspiff on Sunday November 12, 2023 @02:00AM (#38238010)
That's an extremely sad point of view. Of course humans can accomplish things that are not economically viable.

Perhaps it's become harder in our current society, but many great projects of man were economic folly.

To give one admittedly a little cliche example, landing on the moon never made any economic sense.

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Re:The First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility in the US Op... by Dylan16807 on Sunday November 12, 2023 @02:06AM (#38238048)
That's not what I'm talking about. Pretend getting to the moon would have cost a quadrillion dollars. We wouldn't have been able to do it.
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Re:The First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility in the US Op... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday November 12, 2023 @10:48AM (#38241168)
> Pretend getting to the moon would have cost a quadrillion dollars. We wouldn't have been able to do it.

This is a statement of reality, not economic system. A society that decided to divert resources, today, to building a Dyson sphere on Alpha Centauri would fail, irrespective of economic system, because the goal demands more resources than it can sustainably divert.

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Re:The First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility in the US Op... by Dylan16807 on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:34PM (#38243839)
> This is a statement of reality, not economic system.

Yes, that's my point. The worry about "economically feasible" in the ancestor comment is a question of what plans are realistic with unlimited motivation. It's not about economic systems holding us back.

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