Do not underestimate human beings,
attempts to privatize literally everything.
And when they say to the moon, they're not just talking about crypto anymore.
This is a new report from the neo liberal think tank, the Adam Smith Institute and
they're advocating for dividing the moon into parcels, privatizing the land and
renting them out for business and individuals.
Here is the cover of the paper, space invaders, property rights on the moon.
The author Rebecca Lowe says the paper comes from a locking and
inspired rights based classical liberal viewpoint and
claims individual ownership of plots of moon land will promote economic growth.
So Ray, you read this, break it down a little bit, but from what I said,
what do you think?
>> Yeah, I mean, it's pretty ridiculous, but I would not expect anything less
from the organization that advocated to privatize the NHS, and
also lobbied to loosen restrictions on the sale of tobacco.
But essentially the premise of it is that, property rights, and
it's libertarian idea that property rights are the reason that the quality
of life increased for the working class or poor individuals across the globe.
And it's a false assertion because they take a correlation and
deem it the causation totally ignoring the fact that rapid
industrialization was also happening.
But they decided that that is what makes people in it increases,
improves their circumstances.
So they have decided that, let's just put that on the moon and
make lunar landlords and surely that will end poverty somehow.
>> So ridiculous, here is a little bit from the paper.
A clear morally justified and efficient system for assigning and governing
property rights in space in land and other resources in the vacuum itself and
in anything else that might be found would present vast benefits.
These include not only serious financial rewards for
those who would become owners under such a system, and for the other direct and
indirect beneficiaries of space ownerships.
It's all the stuff that Ray said and the framework,
she admits it will be a little unequal.
The framework acknowledges the fact that at least at present only a very small
number of individuals would be able to realize the equally held potential right
to acquire space land.
When you find yourself writing space land, it's hilarious.
Space land let's put that graphic back up to this end the framework, works
to enable a more equalized opportunity to compete over against space land.
So good, I will let's go ahead to graphic five.
There is a treaty that makes this illegal.
>> [LAUGH].
>> There is a treaty that stipulates the exploration and
use of outer space will be carried out for the benefit and
in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind.
Outer space shall be free for exploration and used by all States,
not just United States, but like countries.
Outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty by
means or use or occupation or any other means.
States shall avoid harmful contamination of space and celestial bodies.
We've already destroyed.
There they are.
>> [LAUGH].
We're gonna contaminate the alien land, but it's already illegal.
Which this is a lobbying organization that wrote this and this is how it works.
Everybody is like, it is ridiculous that we would colonize in a rivalrous way or
a privatizing way space, but we don't know what's going to happen.
We just don't have a moral justification for it.
So the Adam Smith society, you guys,
we'll get the Thomas Paine society, will get some common sense.
We'll get some modern economics, we'll throw it all together.
And what do you got?
It says here, it's not me.
It's space invaders.
This pamphlet says I can colonize space.
It's not my fault.
It's just the billions of dollars we put into there because we found that there's
like diamonds six miles under the surface of Mars, so stupid.
I don't know, would you?
I I just wonder which space will we go to?
Will it be like an Elysium style space?
And I do know already that like the people in charge of it will be Brazos and
they will be like Elon musk.
They're the only people who can go there