President Donald Trump said Thursday that U.S. military spending could be cut in half, according to media reports. Defense stocks dropped on the news.
  • trashxeos@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Probably. Let’s be real, they’d privatize gravity if they could figure out how to make it stop affecting individual people.

    • knfrmity@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      There was a Cixin Liu shortstory about how someone privatized air so everyone had to live in phone booth sized things and if they went out they’d be in lifelong debt just for breathing.

      • trashxeos@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        For some reason, I’m suddenly reminded of Spaceballs as well, though the issues are only tangentially related. Where did I put that can of Perri-air?

      • REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml
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        5 months ago

        “The last billionaire” or something like that. Eventually all of earth is owned by one dude, who deports all of humanity off earth.