Too bad that IF we somehow don’t destroy our shared, sole, naturally hospitable habitat, and that’s an enormous if, all of this technology is privately owned,
I disagree with your conclusion. Just because someone does it first, doesn’t mean that that will be the only person to every do it. In fact, if it is done successfully once, then the second person to do it will be able to succeed with a fraction of the effort.
As an example, SpaceX pioneered the commercialization of rocket reuse. There now two other groups doing various versions of reuse for commercial rockets.
unlike the public space endeavors we starved to give the people profiting off this a tax breaks.
The commercial space ventures are getting a small fraction of the funds that are going to the public efforts. I’m not sure how you’re casting that small fraction as starving the public efforts for funding.
We’re creating a future where if we succeed in making any brave new human colonies, they will be exploitative resource extractors for private companies, not humanity, and people will be born into interstellar company stores they can never afford to escape.
I disagree with your conclusion. Just because someone does it first, doesn’t mean that that will be the only person to every do it. In fact, if it is done successfully once, then the second person to do it will be able to succeed with a fraction of the effort.
As an example, SpaceX pioneered the commercialization of rocket reuse. There now two other groups doing various versions of reuse for commercial rockets.
The commercial space ventures are getting a small fraction of the funds that are going to the public efforts. I’m not sure how you’re casting that small fraction as starving the public efforts for funding.
The first one probably. All? Unlikely.