Daven Laure explains:
economic planning is impossible for a continent, let alone an interstellar civilization;
however, the market operates as automatically, efficiently, impersonally and ruthlessly as gravity;
"'...we didn't makes this universe. We only live in it...'" (p. 771) echoes comments made by Dominic Flandry and Manse Everard;
no quadrillionaire, foundation, government or consortium can afford to search for Kirkasant;
resources are divided among too many people with already existing obligations;
taxation is impossible on such a scale;
there is no way to solicit enough voluntary donations from so big a civilization with so many needier cases.
As with the Solar Commonwealth and the Terran Empire, I would like to read a novel about people living and working at the heart of civilization instead of on its fringes.
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Kaor, Paul!
If Elon Musk can truly get mankind off this rock in a real way, he would deserve to become a quadrillionaire!
And, as we know, Daven Laure found a way for the home planet of the lost Kirkasanters to be found relatively quickly.
Ad astra! Sean
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