They found why the moon was stuck like this. An accident, an experiment gone wrong, and the rich {censoreds} that caused it? Were more interested in arguing whose fault it was than fixing it. Fine, then everyone ELSE would fix it, and the moon would be shoved back to its proper orbit again.
https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04534-l150-ameliorative-measures -- Anon Guest
There's an old saying - two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. The corollary to this is that a group of very rich and influential people can plausibly keep a secret if they keep distracting the larger throng with other business. And there were plenty of distractions now that the moon was stuck between the Earth and the sun.
But even with desperate scrambling to "talk about more important things", the secret could not stay safe.
Of course it took ludicrous amounts of money to do it. What they aimed for didn't matter so much as what happened, and there was still a faction attempting to create a profit out of the situation of their own making. Step one had been freezing the moon. Step two involved solar panels covering the far sign of the moon and space elevators somehow streamlining and cornering the market on solar power.
Step two was being refined, according to the paperwork that escaped containment.
Moving fast and breaking things only truly worked for demolition derbies, but that didn't matter to the people trying to wring money out of ruining the world.
No conspiracy-riddled smokescreen could obfuscate what they had done. No great scheme of a shadowy Them could explain why a small group of ludicrously wealthy idiots had done thins, nor why they thought it was a good idea.
To be fair, the rest of the world would have been completely justified in murdering every last one of them. Instead of that, they were forced to spend their wealth in undoing their error. No shaving the moon. No cosmic disco balls. And especially no space elevators somehow conducting electricity to the whole world.
And they had to do it slowly, carefully, and with every caution that restored the moon to its normal orbit.
Only after that was all done, those responsible were stripped of their wealth, assets, and social acclaim. Then they were tattooed with the word Dickhead on their foreheads. So that nobody would ever think of trusting their stupid ideas ever again.
Whatever their good intentions, whatever they thought was a good idea, people had had enough of that flavour of nonsense. Henceforth, there would be hard caps on how much wealth any one person could ever have. They had, after all, proven that it was bad for everyone concerned.
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