What are you doing to prevent the impending horrors of space shanghais?
Think about it.
>transhumanism or transplant sought by the richest humans, seeking superhuman long lives to live for centuries
Yes, they're already trying and there's no clear reason it can't be done.
>minerals and other value outside of Earth
Surely
>forcing vulnerable people onto spacecraft as a multigenerational mining labor colony investment, with short term gains no longer being a limiting factor for incentive to invest once lives go far enough to receive returns
It seems logical enough.
What I'm saying is, if you have grandkids they're going to get hurled into space, and you should do something about it.