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Is there a way to counter high gravity to make it livable for humans?

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I was not entirely sure how to word the title question, so allow me to put my question into more detail here:

Suppose there was a planet with just the right conditions to allow humans to live there (atmosphere, close by, livable temperature, etc.), and there were valuable resources giving them reason to settle this planet. However, the problem is that the gravity on said planet is crushing (a random number for an idea of what I mean by crushing, 300 m/s squared). How might a society with advanced technology theoretically get around this problem. I see two possible solutions.

  1. Using some advanced technology, the society engineers a way for humans to live on the surface and retrieve these resources without being crushed.

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  1. Using some advanced materials and engineering, the society uses robots/drones/some kind of automated system to get to the resources.

Assume that the value of the resources is greater than the cost of getting them. Either way, to be explicitly clear, I need some way for a technologically advanced society (we will say around 1500 years into the future for some reference) to retrieve valuable resources both on and beneath the surface (requiring both mining and harvesting) of a planet whose gravity is 100s of meters per second squared, and get them off planet, in the most practical and efficient manner possible without using handwavium antigravity. The precise method, materials, etc. used in solving this problem should be at least loosely based on science, however whatever works works.

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