Most of the unfathomable amount of resources being lost isn't even within traveling distance, right? And there's a massive bounty to be found in the asteroid be

Most of the unfathomable amount of resources being lost isn't even within traveling distance, right? And there's a massive bounty to be found in the asteroid belt here in our solar system, we could make trillions of dollars of "wealth" by transporting rare metals back here, surely? The main reason for delays on this front seems to be a lack of long-term thinking, as well as a general disinterest in advancing space technology.