This sounds a lot like the old fallacy of, “don’t try to advance spaceflight until humanity has solved all of its problems on Earth”. Problem there is, we’re ne

This sounds a lot like the old fallacy of, “don’t try to advance spaceflight until humanity has solved all of its problems on Earth”. Problem there is, we’re never going to solve all of our problems on Earth, so if we hold ourselves to that, we’re just going to get caught in a stagnant loop which could ironically lead to less of said problems being solved. Humanity works best when we have many projects running in parallel. Rocket propulsion engineers and civil engineers do very different things and it’s not going to help anybody if the former gets shoehorned into the job of the latter.