Well that’s not really a fair comparison. Space research is usually funded with taxpayer money (this is changing, but a fair amount of SpaceX’s revenue is stil

Well that’s not really a fair comparison. Space research is usually funded with taxpayer money (this is changing, but a fair amount of SpaceX’s revenue is still NASA contracts). Games and Starbucks are funded by folks after-tax wages. In both cases it’s money that they earned, but they have a lot more individual agency with the latter portion of their wages than the former portion.