All part of the plan, imo. Grant SpaceX funding, have SpaceX complete the tasks for them, enter semi-large scale production, and get the "elites" off earth.
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Good riddance. But I don't think that's going to happen, anyway.
I don't either. I'm just saying that that's what I believe are their intentions. Keep in mind that humanity has always been notoriously terrible at predicting the future.
Only some of us. The easiest way to predict the future is to build it for yourself.
Which is what the old, gross bloodlines have been doing since the dawn of time.
The elites wouldn't gain much by getting off of earth. They'd still have to bring all their resources in form earth, resupply on the regular, and they'd all have to WORK just to keep their colony or whatever from running out of water and oxygen. That ain't some elitist beachside tax haven, I'll say that.
Not if they are all hive-minded cyborgs...