Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjirō Koizumi posed with a cardboard drone on Monday during a meeting with drone manufacturer AirKamuy. The AirKamuy 150 is a cheap pre-fab cardboard drone meant to die on the battlefield and it comes shipped in a flatpack like an IKEA shelf.
In addition, they patrol the entire planets oceans, and are the main reason why you don’t have pirates just taking ships constantly.
(I’m not necessarily saying piracy is bad…)
But I feel like the violent enforcement of extreme inequality is what creates pirates, not what stops them.
No, mass scale looting of ships is stopped by armed navies, along with the instant communication and remote viewing that make it impossible to do it without anyone noticing. You don’t even need severe inequality for people to think about stealing 100 million dollar cargo moving slowly by itself.