Bailout of Fusion4U

By Qilapid - October 4

AMID panicked calls for the bailout of Fusion4U.com by the AI Council, the origin of our current situation has been mostly forgotten. 22 years ago, the Council suppressed all competition in the fields of advanced fusion research and ionic propulsion methods. It essentially outlawed the existence of several competitors, with the giant Martian company Maximum Overdrive Rocket Engines, LLC. and Russo-Indian cooperative Pакета among them. The Council created this monster monopoly in the name of "more efficient management of technological development resources." Supposedly, competing research organizations would waste time by having multiple teams duplicating the same scientific investigations. As a result, the Council has created a behemoth that is "too big to fail" and threatens the economic stability of the entire solar system. And failing it is, for it cannot compete with the new generation of micro-fusion reactors being built into ships automatically by regenabots.


Savior? Or Super-villain?

The Weekly Solar News editorial page strongly rejects any call to inject more money into this colossal failure. The Council already allows us to fall prey to the ridiculous depredation of the prices that Fusion4U charges for their inferior products. We have no desire to see port docking fees increase to maintain the solvency of this corporation. The AI Council created this mess, and it worsened it by providing better fusion drives on ships for free. That was supposed to save money for every ship in the solar system and these savings were supposed to help prop up the economy and lead to more capital investment into Fusion's large reactor core business.

We believe that no single company, even an artificial mega-monopoly, is essential to the well-being of the economy. The impact of increased port taxes will far outweigh the short-term benefit of stabilizing stock prices. The AI Council's stewardship put us in this situation with its lack of foresight. Now we are supposed to believe the same people who got us here know exactly how to get us out? And is it any surpise that their only solution is to make us pay for their mistakes? Write your AI Counselor today and demand that this proposal be rejected!