Like I said, it's not a serious proposal, just a thought experiment. Indeed America now has "innovators capable of making humanity multi-planetary" (whom some

Like I said, it's not a serious proposal, just a thought experiment. Indeed America now has "innovators capable of making humanity multi-planetary" (whom some would call egoistic oligarchs) + mostly shit government (and politicians who want to keep it that way). Could it have taken a different path in the past to instead have well-managed national wealth and less dick-shaped chrome rockets? Would that still be possible?