Given the history of man and exploration, it's always been wealthy industrialists or colonizing nations who funded ships to every continent of the earth and to every depth of the ocean.
That certain class has been with us for longer than 1933, it just happens to look a little different as Elon Musk rather than Queen Isabella of Spain, Queen Victoria of England, Leland Stanford, or J.D. Rockefeller.
Fair enough. 🙂 Nothing in there I disagree with. That's pretty much my take on Heinlein. I wasn't considering the Nazis... You're right.
This is a subject of more than passing interest to me. I feel like I internalized the same ideas as them, but drew different conclusions. Perhaps I'm desperate to differentiate my self from... whatever Musk and his ilk are.
It's so nice that on #Mastodon you can question someone's statement and get a thoughtful answer that answers your question in response. Mmmm civil conversation.