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Saveliev is hardly alone in drawing parallels between the NewSpace industry (or Space Race 2.0) and the age of imperialism (ca. 18th to 20th century). Last year, Dr. Victor Shammas of the Work Research Institute at Oslo Metropolitan University and independent scholar Tomas Holen produced a study that appeared in Palgrave Communications (a publication maintained by the journal Nature).
Titled, "One giant leap for capitalist … prise in outer space," Shammas and Holen assert that the commercial exploitation of space will benefit human beings disproportionately. At the heart of this effort are Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other Silicon Valley-billionaires that—contrary to their humanist pretenses—are looking to expand their wealth while taking advantage of the fact that there is little to no oversight in this area.
"In this regard," they wrote, "SpaceX and related ventures are not so very different from maritime colonialists and the trader-exploiters of the British East India Company." For the record, the East India Company operated with impunity in India while it was under British rule, effectively making them the real governing authority over the nation and its people.
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1954/1
Surprisingly, one wonders how many South Asians already living on Ceres and the Moon right now will be impacted by American Colonialism of Extraplanetary Bodies.
This classic piece of Socialist-Oppression Capitalism-Sucks Don't-Remove-Muh-Scarcity Whingebaggery continues:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0218-9#Sec2
i saw these trains of satellites trailing across the sky along a single path in Santa Cruz a couple of weeks ago. Spooky. Comparisons to Skynet from the Terminator movies don't seem that inappropriate.