Quote Originally Posted by SadisticNature View Post
Corporations and Individualists are unlikely to try for getting land in space unless the claim laws change.
But if the governments aren't going into space, how can they stop the claims? Possession is nine-tenths of the law, and so forth.

As far as it goes with democracy, if change isn't occurring its because people aren't making it happen. This isn't as easy as it sounds but its certainly possible in a democracy, in a monarchy the main methods of policy changes were executions and civil wars.
I think there's been a lot of change in the democracies lately. Unfortunately, the changes I've seen haven't been for the better. More restrictions, less liberty, less governing but more government, less innovation, more baby-sitting. The more things change the more they stay the same.

Geez, I'm just full of platitudes today, aren't I?