“Must Earth Intervene in Company Towns: In the Asteroid Belt, exploited workers are working in dangerous conditions”

Title“Must Earth Intervene in Company Towns: In the Asteroid Belt, exploited workers are working in dangerous conditions”
Year for Search2019
AuthorsTomlinson, Patrick S.
Secondary TitleThe New York Times
Date PublishedSeptember 9, 2019
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

The sub-title tells the story. With Earth law not extending into space, workers are both directly exploited by being required to live in company housing and buy from company stores and treated as expendable parts.

URLhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/opinion/future-space-mining.html.
Info Notes

One of a series of “Op-Eds From the Future” that began May 27, 2019, and continued regularly through the rest of the year, with most, but not all, with eutopian or dystopian elements.

Illustration

Illus. John Karborn

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Full Text

2019 Tomlinson, Patrick S. “Must Earth Intervene in Company Towns: In the Asteroid Belt, exploited workers are working in dangerous conditions.” Illus. John Karborn. The New York Times (September 9, 2019) with twenty over comments. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/opinion/future-space-mining.html. One of a series of “Op-Eds From the Future” that began May 27, 2019, and continued regularly through the rest of the year, with most, but not all, with eutopian or dystopian elements.

The sub-title tells the story. With Earth law not extending into space, workers are both directly exploited by being required to live in company housing and buy from company stores and treated as expendable parts.