Do you enjoy greater habitability or do you use technology to compensate for habitability? Using air and water filters to offset for pollution we've added to the natural environment, for instance.
It always blows my mind when people say nonsense like this.
> On the other hand, we have efficiently terraformed the hell out of Earth to increase shareholder profit.
No actually we have terraformed earth so people could live comfortably, have heating in their home and ability to move around and many, many other things. And this continues because people in China, India and Indonesia and others would like to have these things too.
Unter a socialist government (assuming it would be able to consistently grow) where 'sharehoolder profit' don't matter you would equally have polluted the and terraformed the earth.
Casting this as some 'greedy elites' abusing the 'good people' is a fundamental misunderstand of the situation.
Of course long term habitability might suffer but hey, thats a problem for the next generation.