> If the ship is large enough and comfortable enough, it can be a better lifestyle than many people live today.
Surely if it is comfortable enough, nobody is even remotely considering sending poor people there, right?
Then again: what about improving life on Earth instead? Because if you look out there, it's great (at least in those places that humans have not completely destroyed).
>Then again: what about improving life on Earth instead?
Because it's politically impossible.
Your question is like going to a prison full of psychopathic murderers (not just regular murderers, but the ones who really like murdering) and asking them why they can't just be normal, good citizens.
Surely if it is comfortable enough, nobody is even remotely considering sending poor people there, right?
Then again: what about improving life on Earth instead? Because if you look out there, it's great (at least in those places that humans have not completely destroyed).