You play the game with the cards you have in your hand. Big government is an unfortunate reality and exists because people with a thirst for power see to it that they are in charge. I would like to see a fully private space industrial society with no desire or need for government support. Something along Heinlein's vision would be nice. Maybe, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are steps in that direction. There is lots of money to be made in space industrialization and keeping government out of it will be a constant battle.

Federal banks have been looting in this way since 1913.

In our current world civilization is driven by politics. We put our faith in people that claim to want to make the world a better place but whose real goal is the acquisition of power. Political power is insidious because the only talent necessary to achieve it is the ability to deceive. A capitalist knows how to profit from circumstances even when those circumstances are the product of a flawed or corrupt system. Such people may have ethical shortcomings but they are the people that make the world work.That is disappointing to many.

As a capitalist I view the space program as belonging to whomever is willing to put their money where their mouth is. Then it moves on from being a "program" to an enterprise. Space industrialization holds the promise of an economic revolution that will make the industrial revolution look like a child's toy.

Belongs to the person who invents warp drive and controls force of gravity so star ships don't pulverize the people in them. Lets go!

I think anyone with their head screwed on straight can admire Elon Musk for his achievements.

I admire my friends. I admire, to some degree, all sorts of achievers.

I'm just tired of reading critiques of Musk for not fitting some Objectivist or free-market perfection list. I guess I would ask the Elon-haters to name any businessperson of significant achievement who meets their perfect standards.

It's not a matter of preaching Objectivism, it's walking the walk. And Elon Musk has walked the walk as well as anyone. Consider his many business achievements. Consider that his two main companies are both succeeding with quality and price of product in industries where no new entrants of such scale had succeeded in quite a while. Consider his very rational attitude and manner. Consider his goals of creating an inspiring and technologically advanced future.

I'm just asking for justice here. We should judge people by clear standards, but also realize that our overall judgment has to recognize that not being perfect doesn't make one evil.

I will read it. Thanks.
To answer your question, if people ignore the reasons behind the limits of the original constitution and make changes without knowledge of the issues that create the need for the limits, then there is little hope for constitutional limits being retained. People are convinced that "its different this time", but it rarely is different. Power corrupts. Always has. Likely that it always will.

I am re-reading Heinlein's Starman Jones, and it has frequent references to the conditions of near anarchy in colonies on planets in far away star systems. Distance from authority makes freedom more likely.

You asked, " Could we ever write a constitution that didnt morph into a statist document like ours has?" Lysander Spooner would say no: Spooner was a very interesting and colorful lawyer in the 1800s who developed a successful, cheaper mail service before the government shut him down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysande...
You can read Spooner's No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority here https://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/l... or watch a video of it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G82sz...

Here's one:
https://www.ff.org/george-soros-the-f...

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