beckalennart

It’s a convenient intellectual term for us, but if you ask the guy who is starving then he would likely disagree with you.

I think it really depends on who you ask, so I don’t think you can generalize how people feel about this.

As for myself, I’d love to see space tech thriving in India.

But all of the extremely poor people I encountered during my time in India, I can’t imagine that they would be pushing for this or even think about it beyond their daily struggles.

I lived in India for several years. Given I was on assignment from the US, I wasn’t affected by the poverty but I saw it every single day. Personally, I find this technological effort exciting, but I would imagine that those less fortunate would find this a deeply irresponsible use of resources.