I was just thinking something similar. SpaceX on its current trajectory could quite possibly be the equivilant of the next Dutch East India company when it come

I was just thinking something similar. SpaceX on its current trajectory could quite possibly be the equivilant of the next Dutch East India company when it comes to access to space. Which so far, hasn't been particularly a profitable capability. But starlink, might just be the tip of the potential profits. If they manage to get even a small amount of that business worldwide its going to be a cash printing machine and likely once we have people spending more time in space proper economies will start to develop. And spaceX will be there acting like the local bank/govmt taking a couple percent on everything. That all of course assumes Elon manages to live for another 3-4 decades, because frankly I don't trust anyone else to have enough vision to put everything on the line for scifi level ideas.