La Organización de las Naciones Unidas, debe saber de la existencia de Asgardia y de su deseo de reconocimiento institucional, jurídico y legal. Es importante que nuestra primera nación espacial cuente con dicho apoyo y forme parte de la ONU con un sillón. Su aportación se basará en fomentar los derechos humanos, el medio ambiente y la divulgación de la ciencia y la cultura. La democracia y el respeto a las minorías en una civilización en continuo progreso, podrían ser sus señas de identidad. Pongámonos en marcha para conseguir este importante paso.

Hi folks, from time to time I will post some interesting links being related to the very ambitious idea of Asgardia.

Today I will elaborate on the arising industry of resources in space. Since Asgardia once mentioned to regulate the commercialization of outer space resources I recommend that the asgardian leaders make themselves familiar with the following constellation. If this already took place I am curios what the current state or the outcome of the conversation is / was.

I found a startup founded in 2012 which claims to be the leading provider of resources for people and products in space through its goal of identifying, extracting, and refining resources from near-Earth asteroids, called "planet ressources".

Famous founders of this company are among others

Peter Diamandis, / Head of Board of the  X-Prize-Foundation ( https://www.xprize.org )
Chris Lewicki / Ex-Nasa-Employee.

Further "Planet Ressources" had famous investors like

Larry Page / Google-Founder
Eric Schmidt / Ex-Google-Manager

James Cameron / Film Director,  is a scientific consultant

Mr. Lewicky has been a leading team member of the Marsrover Missions "Spirit" and "Opportunity" and is now Head of the company

https://www.planetaryresources.com/company/

For more information

https://www.planetaryresources.com/

However Planetary Ressources has been taken over by a blockchain based solution develoment company called "Consensys"

https://consensys.net/

As nobody has ever exploited astroids with useful and valuable resources one now might ask, what has blockchain to do with it. Consys plans to create a blockchain based platform to allow secure trading with ressources from astroid. All the transactions will be stored, secured, authenticated and documented and handle based on "smart contracts". Smart contracts are based on the blockchain technology "ethereum"

Now some questions arise. All the companies are located in the US. If now tradings are made, the tax liablility arises in the US.

Is Asgardia involved in these developments?
What are current actions to prevent the United States preeminence?
Are there discussions taking place to work for the prosperity of earthlings and if so how can the tax liability can be transferred to Asgardia?

Feel free to comment or add my post! I am curios for your responses!

Best regards!

Since ancient civilizations, the social class which produces intellectually only exists because there's a much bigger social class of people doing "nonintellectual" work.
In the case of ancient Athens, this lower class was composed of, mostly, slaves. Those would never be able to produce intellectual content or contribute to the advance of technology. Considering the proportion of slaves and citizens were near 1:1, imagine how much innovation was lost.

Nowadays we no longer need humans in this lower class sustaining the whole system, as we can automate all the labor and make every single human who's willing to learn an academic. Through AI and autonomous vehicles, I believe we can push humanity to its maximum potential, producing first necessity items and distributing them to everyone with certain control, we can feed the whole humanity without producing more (as this 2012 article say https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10440046.2012.695331?journalCode=wjsa20 ).

Also, the jobs "lost" by the full automation of first necessity items production won't create a legion of unemployed people dying from hunger, as

1) Everyone would have access to basic items;

2) Those people would be able to contribute to society in many other ways through intellectual and cultural production (i.e. art, entertainment, etc.).

Also, without the desperate need to make money in order to survive, people could dedicate their lives to what they really love, this way being way more productive working on a field they love but would normally pay less than a field they hate (which would make those people not really interested in expanding horizons as they only work for a paycheck).

Please, don't be shy and let's develop this idea together. Also, critics and opinions on the topic are more than welcome!

There's a chance that I made some grammar mistakes, please contact me if that's the case.