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Re:Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden? by potato3732842 on Monday September 22, 2025 @07:11AM (#45331808)
Because it's cheaper to live on a f-ed up half-built construction site of a planet than it is to fight with entrenched interests on earth.

Same reason North America got colonized by religious extremists and weirdos.

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Re:Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden? by pbmonster on Monday September 22, 2025 @10:28AM (#45333961)
The free, abundant land choke full of natural resources was probably more important.
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Re:Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden? by techdmn on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:17PM (#45335575)
Only free if you discount the costs involved in carrying out genocide against the existing inhabitants. But your point stands, that cost was frequently born by the government, so from the perspective of individual settlers it was often free.
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Re:Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden? by potato3732842 on Monday September 22, 2025 @01:13PM (#45336465)
> But your point stands, that cost was frequently born by the government,

Who paid this government?

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Re:Why is Venus hell and Earth an Eden? by ambicapter on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:48PM (#45336092)
There was plenty of death and danger involved in colonizing a foreign land you've never been to with 16th-18th century era technology.
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