The thing is, somehow we all got convinced that "progress" means "profitable stuff". BigTech was not working on AR headsets because they wanted to improve our

The thing is, somehow we all got convinced that "progress" means "profitable stuff". BigTech was not working on AR headsets because they wanted to improve our quality of life, but precisely because they want to make profit. They were aiming at "the next smartphone". SpaceX is not trying to improve our quality of life; they want to make profit by commercialising space. "Saving the species by going to mars" is completely absurd. There is a lot of progress to be done to save the species, but SpaceX is rather a negative in that sense. There is a lot of progress that can be done to improve our life (mostly to minimise the problems coming from climate change and the current mass extinction we're already observing). It's just that this progress doesn't make money. I love progress. I hate profit hidden in fake progress claims.