[malloyd]

One major issue that's getting glossed over is that if you are moving a substantial chunk of a major industry to space, let alone several of them, in the absence of a magic launch technology it's necessarily heavily automated - you can't afford to ship blue collar workers to orbit. If that's making lots of money it won't stay in orbit either. Some sort of nod to the problem of massive unemployment seems like something you should be including, particularly in a setting that seems so heavily politically left leaning.

That suggestion upthread of an Alaska Permanent Fund sort of scheme might be a reasonable start - "Basic Income" concepts do seem like one of the ideas that are often floated for dealing with this - though it's presumably not modelled on Alaska, which being based in oil revenue presumably isn't doing that well in this timeline.