You'd have zero control over your existence. Someone else would own that station and you'd exist entirely at their whim. They would decide if you get food, air, water, shelter. No real access to nature. I'd rather die.
realitista
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Not the way I'd want to spend the rest of my life, that's for sure.
It will take a very long time indeed before we can reach another habitable planet enough to alleviate an exponentially growing population, and forced birth control will be unpopular, not to mention probably employed as eugenics by those in power against those who aren't.
I didn't mind having something light and built in for when I just wanted quickly to create a little rich text doc and not boot up full fat Word and the corresponding jump in resource usage and file size.
You'd have to experience death for the clone to continue being the only copy.
Is a forever expanding population of old people much better?
Not only that, there are products you can buy right now with solid state batteries. The first power brick with a solid state battery is actually available for purchase.
Mouse tits?
That's what I did with all mine.
Fair enough. But I don't think not using it for this use case will change much.
If it works, why not?
You're not renting air and water. You have a market of options to choose from. None of those things will be true in space.