If we could agree on such a great project and make it happen, that would have a massive benefit for our overcoming the very problem you are talking about.

If we could just agree to do something great together then that in itself would solve a lot of social ills.

Cooperation, not competition. That is the key.

[–] sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Great, that covers the first generation in charge. What are the long term educational, economic, political, social, and cultural institutions that will keep things going when everyone alive will have been born on the ship/station, and nobody has first hand knowledge of how it started?