They do indeed hand wave away things like the cost and other concerns and cheer on the "vision"... "The billionaires see a future in which humanity, constraine

They do indeed hand wave away things like the cost and other concerns and cheer on the "vision"... "The billionaires see a future in which humanity, constrained for resources such as water, food, and energy, fights ever harder for a more meager share. “We really could go down one of two paths,” Garriott said. “In a few decades we could reach a point where we have to ration birth rates, energy, food, and more in a stark way. Or, we could bring back the bounty of resources in space, and now is the time to start that process." It's good that billionaires are looking into a distant future, I can't fault them for that. It surprises me that they're not also looking at the present and wondering how they can also have a meaningful and large impact on problems we have right now that are going to impact that future they see. Those hundreds of millions of dollars and huge number of people working on going into space could be doing some serious work on the ground here. I get it, I really get what they're going after here, but I can't help but think there are really truly better things to do with all that money and time.