I'm reminded of A Canticle for Leibowitz: space colonies were built for nationalistic reasons, and none of the promised economic benefits to their founder natio

I'm reminded of A Canticle for Leibowitz: space colonies were built for nationalistic reasons, and none of the promised economic benefits to their founder nations ever materialized. The only good they did was act as a lifeboat for humanity after the people on Earth destroyed themselves in a second nuclear holocaust.